Tjaart Jurgens Maré Doctor Legum Universiteit van die Vrystaat

provincial, regional and local – and those institutions outside the public service which
were controlled by the State, viz where the majority of the members of the controlling
body are appointed by the State or where the functions of that body and their exercise
is prescribed by the State to such an extent that it is effectively in control. The test, in
short, was whether the State was in control.” 741
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In hierdie saak het die hof bevind dat Telkom ʼn uitvoerende staatsorgaan is en dat die
beginsels van die administratiefreg van toepassing is op die Telkom se werksaamhede.
In Claude Neon Limited v Germiston City Council742 het die hof bevind dat die weiering om
ʼn tender te oorweeg op ʼn suiwer administratiewe handeling neerkom.
In Inkhata Freedom Party v Truth and Reconciliation Commission743 het die hof beslis dat
ʼn staatsorgaan, vir doeleindes van Artikel 32(1) van die Grondwet (die reg op inligting),
funksionarisse en instellings insluit wat, hoewel hulle nie deel van die regering is nie,
bevoegdhede uitoefen wat geag word van ʼn openbare aard te wees. Die hof het voorts
beslis dat hoewel die Kommissie vir Waarheid en Versoening nie onder die regstreekse
beheer van die sentrale regering gestaan het nie, dit weens wetgewing ingestel is en ten
doel gehad het om die oogmerke te bereik wat in die naskrif van die Interim Grondwet en
in die aanhef van die Wet op die Bevordering van Nasionale Eenheid en Versoening 34
van 1995 gestel is.
Regter van Zyl het homself ook uitgelaat oor die term “administratiewe optrede” in die saak
van Cekeshe v Premier for the Province of Eastern Cape. 744
In Bernstein and Others v Bester and Others NNO 745 moes die Konstitusionele Hof egter
die vraag beantwoord of ʼn ondersoek gedurende die likwidasie van ʼn maatskappy deur die
Meester van die Hoë Hof deur ʼn hof self, of deur kommissies aangestel kragtens die
Maatskappywet 61 van 1973, op administratiewe optrede neerkom. Regter Ackermann het
die volgende gesê (Paragraaf 97) :
“I have difficulty in fitting this (the enquiry) into the mould of administrative action. I
also have some difficulty in seeing how Section 24(c) of the Interim Constitution can
be applied to the enquiry, because it is hard to envisage an ‘administrative action’
taken by the commission in respect whereof it would make any sense to furnish
741 1996(3) SA 800 (T) op 810.
742 1995(3) SA 710 (W). By720 stel die hof dit soos volg:“In my view there is an obvious similarity between the award of a tender by an organ of State and
the award of a licence or permit to competing applications by an organ of State. The proposition that the award of a licence is an administrative act, is not
only to be found in constitutional law, as the award of a licence has been reviewable at common law prior to the Constitution. (See South African Roads
Board v Johannesburg City Council 1991(4) SA 1 (A) en Corium (Pty) Limited and Others v Myburgh Park Langebaan (Pty) Limited and Others, 1995(3) SA
51 (C). Consequently in my view the first respondents decision can be classified as an administrative act.”
743 2000(5) BCLR 534 (C) / 2000(3) SA 119 (C).
744 1997(12) BCLR (TK) op 1766 “In my opinion, and bearing in mind that it would be undesirable to attempt to provide any precise test by which in every
instance the distinction between ‘Legislative action’ and ‘administrative action’ can be determined for the purposes of Section 33, the question may be
answered with reference to the nature of the function and the nature and the effect of the authority exercising the power or the instrument used to publish
the action or decision. It is the substance and not the form or the name that matters. Accordingly, the fact that the statutory power, as in the instant matter,
was exercised by the Premier and issued by way of proclamation is in itself insufficient to conclude that it is legislative action.”
745 1996(2) SA 751 (CC).