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Enoch Godongwana, minister of finance.
A R500-million National Treasury "unlawful" tender is being legally challenged as a "threat to vulnerable advocates", who face exclusion from the envisioned Treasury legal practitioners panel.
The General Council of the Bar of South Africa (GCB) and the Advocates for Transformation (AFT) – the entities that have hauled the government to court – claim the "dysfunctional" State Attorney's office rendered advocates not tax compliant by not paying them on time, leading to them not meeting the requirements to be part of the Treasury's legal panel.
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