In a government tender for school books the appellants failed to disclose their connection to persons employed by the state. Such constituted prejudice. The general public, whose funds were being used to finance such projects, had an interest in these tenders.
Prejudice was not only proprietary, and failure to reveal relationships was prejudicial to other tenderers and rendered the state incapable of administering public funds fairly and equitably.
S v Tshopo and Others 2013 (1) SACR 127 (FB)