Tag: South Africa
South Africa: Exemptions to Aid Consumers During and After Riots
By: Char van der Merwe & Gina Lodolo (African Antitrust)
On 15 July 2021, Ebrahim Patel, the Minister of Trade Industry and Competition, published a block...
South Africa Launches Probe Into Takealot, UberEats & Other Online Markets
The South Africa Competition Commission (Comp Comm) has the likes of Takealot, Airbnb, Uber Eats, and Google Play in its sights, as it’s preparing...
Cape Town Company Accused Of Excessive Pricing To Donate Face Masks
A medical equipment supplier accused of charging excessive prices for examination gloves has supplied a government department with 49,400 surgical face masks to the...
Uber Faces Class Action Suit In South Africa
Mbuyisa Moleele Attorneys, assisted by Leigh Day, are preparing a class action lawsuit to be filed in the Johannesburg Labour Court against Uber on...
EU Watchdog Set To Accept Aspen Concessions
EU antitrust regulators are set to accept South African pharmaceutical company Aspen’s concessions aimed at ending a three-year long investigation that could lead to...
South Africa Probes Price Of COVID-19 Treatment Remdesivir
The Competition Commission of South Africa, is investigating the price of US pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead Science’s coronavirus treatment remdesivir and prices charged by generic...
South Africa: Competition Commission blocks SA Airlink and Safair merger
On Friday, 23 February, the Competition Commission South Africa announced it has prohibited the proposed merger between SA Airlink and Safair, “as the transaction is...
Second issue “From Collusion to Competition”
Welcome to the second issue of our monthly cartel column “From Collusion to Competition.”
This month we have two excellent articles from South Africa.
The...
