Msunduzi Municipality is under no legal obligation to continue using its security company Khuselani Security and Risk Management (KSA). The Witness report says this follows a ruling by Judge Piet Bezuidenhout of the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg).

He dismissed an application brought by KSA seeking to declare that it was lawfully appointed to provide security services to the city.

KSA also wanted to interdict the municipality from appointing any other service provider to provide the same security services, except in terms of a new tender and pursuant to the lawful adjudication and implementation of this new tender.

Bezuidenhout said KSA maintained that the document which it received constituted a valid agreement that was entered into between the parties. However, the municipality contended it was an internal document merely containing recommendations to the bid adjudication committee.

Bezuidenhout found that there was no valid agreement concluded between the parties; thus he said it was not necessary for him to pursue the issue of fraud.

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