Patricia de Lille says the scrapped R1 billion sponsorship partnership between South Africa and English football side Tottenham Hotspur was “unlawful and invalid” and that the deal violated state agency SA Tourism’s supply-chain management processes.
was “unlawful and invalid” and that the deal violated state agency SA Tourism’s supply-chain management processes.Daily MaverickThe sequence of events around the deal included meetings in December between SA Tourism and Tottenham officials who, De Lille said, made a presentation to their South African counterparts before SA Tourism board members travelled to London in January for five days.
“It appears that the sponsorship is a service which was proposed to be acquired by procurement through ‘sole source’. Sole source procurement is, however, only allowed where there is no competition in the market, and only one supplier is able to provide the goods or services, which does not appear to be the case here,” the minister said.
Botha, in the letter to De Lille, said the board had an “in-principle” agreement with representatives from Tottenham, but that no deal had been signed with the English football team, which competes in that country’s elite men’s league.
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