SABC loses bid to sue TV retailer Masstores
The public broadcaster tried to convince the SCA that the High Court in Johannesburg got it wrong when it threw out the SABC’s case against Masstores
The beleaguered SABC found itself on the losing side yet again on Friday‚ this time over its bid to sue a TV retailer for R7.5m. The public broadcaster‚ which has lost several battles involving its controversial former chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng‚ tried to convince a full bench at the Supreme Court of Appeal that the High Court in Johannesburg got it wrong when it threw out its case against Masstores. But Acting Judge of Appeal Ashton Schippers said the SABC’s claim‚ which arose out of an order for 2,500 TVs at Game in Polokwane‚ was "opportunistic and contrived". The TVs were ordered in 2011 by EduSolutions‚ the company responsible for the 2012 Limpopo textbook crisis‚ which planned to deliver them to schools throughout the province. Masstores gave EduSolutions a R10m, 30-day credit facility but the SABC wrote to the retailer claiming it had handed over the TVs before EduSolutions had secured a TV licence.
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