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Who Gets The Work In Buffalo City Metro? City Appoints 38 Firms To Its Legal Panel

By Coastal Reporter · KuGompo City

10 September 2026 · 1 min read

This article was created using or in collaboration with AI. It was then reviewed, fact-checked and edited by a real human. Lastly, it was approved and published by a senior editor.

Who Gets The Work In Buffalo City Metro? City Appoints 38 Firms To Its Legal Panel

Mxolisi Yawa

The municipality says its legal work is allocated through a database procurement system with rotational selection, a method meant to spread public work among panel firms.

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality has appointed 38 local law firms to its legal panel, with most of the firms based in Qonce and KuGompo, according to a recent confidential council report.

The report, tabled on July 30, 2026, says the appointments were made during the 2024 financial year under a three-year legal services tender. It says the municipality uses a database procurement system with a fair rotational allocation methodology to assign work to panel firms.

The announcement is important as the public has a right to know who gets to do work for the municipality. Legal fees come from public money, which makes the way the municipality allocates legal work a matter of cost, fairness and access for local professionals. The report’s description of the panel suggests the city wanted to spread work across several firms rather than rely on a single provider, a move that should be welcomed by everyone.

The legal services unit says the appointment of these service providers, though they were not named, complied with the municipality’s supply chain management policy. The panel was appointed on July 1, 2025 and runs until 30 June 2027.

The report was prepared by City Manager Mxolisi Yawa and was tabled as a confidential matter outstanding from previous meetings. City spokespeople do not comment on confidential council documents so The Coastal could not establish the names of the law firms.

The report was accompanied by an annexure listing the legal matters handled by each of the firms, the financial impact of each case where summons had been issued, and the legal fees paid, cost orders and recoveries. However those details were not included in the material made available for this story.

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