Grumpy loser: CoA blasts Mupane bidder

In October, Ulsan secured a High Court interdict of the award to Nova, claiming several technical irregularities. In a scathing judgment issued last week on Thursday, a CoA bench set aside with costs the interim interdict secured at the High Court and upheld the appeal filed by Thekiso and Nova. It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.

We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees.

We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD…