Usually tenders are attacked by an aggrieved tenderer who believes that the award made was wrong due to either procedural irregularities, corruption or otherwise.

The Supreme Court of Appeal handed down an interesting judgment in the latter part of 2009 dealing with the entitlement of a materials supplier to invoke certain exclusion of liability clauses in relation to material supplied which did not conform to the contractual specification.

At the beginning of this year the Supreme Court of Appeal dealt with a case involving the challenge to a municipal tender award in Limpopo Province.

This document summarises the changes to mineral legislation which have occurred since the beginning of 2013, which will have an impact on mining related operations.