Gidani rejects the Pretoria High Court’s judgment confirming its successor, Ithuba Holdings GIDANI does not accept Friday’s judgment in the Pretoria High Court confirming its successor, Ithuba Holdings, as the legitimate operator of the national lottery and is "very likely" to take it on appeal.Gidani contested the legitimacy of the licence award to Ithuba from when it was announced in late 2014 and was prepared to continue its fight against it to prove its point, the company’s executive for legal and compliance, Dawid Muller, said yesterday. He and his team would study the judgment today and decide on the way forward.Gidani’s litigation started with an urgent interdict after the announcement of the award of the licence to Ithuba. This was to prevent it from rolling out the national lottery pending an application for a review of the decision by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.This failed and was followed by a partially successful application for a judicial review of the decis...
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