Ruling to dissolve Matshelagabedi plant partnership upheld

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling dissolving the partnership of the two sub-contractors that built the 70-megawatt (MW) power station in Matshelagabedi.

The companies, Runicta Engineering and Garrick Operations, appeared before the Court of Appeal as a result of an appeal made by Garrick Operations requesting that the High Court ruling be overturned.

The High Court had ordered that the partnership between the contractors should be dissolved and that the profits of the partnership and the assets of the partnership be shared between the partners equally.

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