13. OTHER PAYABLES

Summarized below is the breakdown of other payables as of June 30, 2019 and 2018:


		2019		2018

Accrual of implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA	$	34,039	$	-
Accruals		10,620		16,148
Provisions		6,074		8,211
Other		10,814		9,690
Value-added tax payable		3,234		5,478
Payroll-related payables		1,113		1,533
Participating merchants settlement obligation		555		585
	$	66,449	$	41,645

Other includes transactions-switching funds payable, deferred income, client deposits and other payables.

Accrual of implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA

As the Company previously disclosed, in June 2014, the Company received approximately ZAR 317.0 million, including VAT, from SASSA, related to the recovery of additional implementation costs its subsidiary, CPS, incurred during the beneficiary re-registration process in fiscal 2012 and 2013.

After the award of the tender, SASSA requested that CPS biometrically register all social grant beneficiaries (including child grant beneficiaries) and collect additional information for each child grant recipient. CPS agreed to SASSA's request and, as a result, it performed approximately 11 million additional registrations beyond those that CPS tendered for in the quoted service fee. Accordingly, CPS sought reimbursement from SASSA of the cost of this exercise, supported by a factual findings certificate from an independent auditing firm. SASSA paid CPS ZAR 317.0 million, including VAT, as full settlement of the additional costs CPS incurred.

In March 2015, Corruption Watch, a South African non-profit civil society organization, commenced legal proceedings in the Gauteng Division, Pretoria of the High Court of South Africa ("High Court") seeking an order by the High Court to review and set aside the decision of SASSA's Chief Executive Officer to approve a payment to CPS of ZAR 317.0 million and directing CPS to repay the aforesaid amount, plus interest. Corruption Watch claimed that there was no lawful basis to make the payment to CPS, and that the decision was unreasonable and irrational and did not comply with South African legislation. CPS was named as a respondent in this legal proceeding.

On February 22, 2018, the matter was heard by the High Court. On March 23, 2018, the High Court ordered that the June 15, 2012 variation agreement between SASSA and CPS be reviewed and set aside. CPS was ordered to refund ZAR 317.0 million to SASSA, plus interest from June 2014 to date of payment. On April 4, 2018, CPS filed an application seeking leave to appeal the whole order and judgment of the High Court with the High Court because it believed that the High Court erred in its application of the law and/or in fact in its findings. On April 25, 2018, the High Court refused the application seeking leave to appeal. In September 2018, CPS received notification from the Supreme Court that its petition seeking leave to appeal had been granted. The matter was heard on September 10, 2019.

On September 30, 2019, the Supreme Court delivered its ruling in the matter, declining CPS' appeal and awarding costs against CPS. CPS is liable to repay SASSA ZAR 317.0 million, plus interest from June 2014 to date of payment. As a result, CPS recorded the liability at June 30, 2019, of $34.0 million (ZAR 479.4 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019, comprising a revenue refund of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million), accrued interest of $11.4 million (ZAR 161.0 million), unclaimed indirect taxes of $2.8 million (ZAR 39.4 million) and estimated costs of $0.1 million (ZAR 1.4 million)). The Company has reduced revenue by $19.7 million during the year ended June 30, 2019, because it has interpreted the Supreme Court ruling as a price variation and not a nonreciprocal transaction.