The court held that the automatic termination clause was impermissible and could not rightly be invoked to stave off the clear and unambiguous effect of the Minister's overt act, and concluded that the termination of Mampeule's contract of employment pursuant to a contractual term in his employment contract, read together with the Articles of Association of SAPO, were impermissible in their truncation of the provisions of Schedule 8 of the LRA and possibly even the concomitant constitutional right to fair labour practices.
