DA says ConCourt ruling on the Public Procurement Act protects fiscal autonomy against national overreach [SOUND]

# The DA says the Constitutional Court judgment declaring the Public Procurement Act unconstitutional and invalid is a decisive victory for constitutional subsidiarity. The Western Cape Government and the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism had challenged Parliament’s process, including the treatment of Chapter 4, which deals with the use of public procurement to advance socioeconomic transformation. The DA’s Leon van Wyk says the ruling halts National Treasury’s attempt to enforce a centralised, one-size-fits-all supply chain framework over provincial and municipal spheres: