The Competition Commission of South Africa (the "Commission") conducted coordinated dawn raids at the premises of four scrap metal purchasing companies as part of an investigation into suspected price-fixing on Friday 13 February 2026.

There has for many years been a vigorous debate on how the Competition Tribunal ("the Tribunal") should determine the appropriate penalty to be levied on firms which contravene the Competition Act, 89 of 1998 ("the Act"), in particular on cartel offenders.

The recent investment by RMB Ventures and Mohau Equity Partners in the Bulldog Group represents not just a strategic business move, but an example of a transformative transaction ...

On 24 July 2012 the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) unconditionally approved the large merger involving Life Healthcare (Proprietary) Limited (Life Healthcare) and Joint Medical Holdings Limited (JMH), following the Competition Commission's (Commission) recommendation to the Tribunal that the merger be prohibited.

The Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) has called for executives of firms involved in cartel conduct to show greater courage to admit to and cease cartel conduct

On 20 September 2012 the Competition Tribunal conditionally approved the large merger involving Oceana Group Limited and V&A Cold Storage (Proprietary) Limited.

On 20 July 2012 the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) issued its reasons for the conditional approval of the intermediate merger between Synergy Income Fund Limited (Synergy) and Khuthala Alliance (Proprietary) Limited (Khuthala).

Tribunal issues reasons for the unconditional approval of the Life Healthcare and Joint Medical Holdings merger.

In a recent Open Secrets report on the ‘data war' between GovChat and Meta, the writers wrote an insightful analysis of the central issues and the potential risk to the ‘sanctity' of the personal information of South African citizens.

On 7 May 2021, the Competition Commission ("Commission") issued Draft Guidelines on Small Merger Notification ("the Guidelines") for public comment.

MyBroadband reported on Monday that DStv will now offer the streaming service Disney+ in South Africa on their Explora decoders from 18 May 2022.

On the 25th of November 2019, the Competition Commission published its final report on the findings of the Grocery Retail Sector Market Inquiry.

Competition law is evolving, on a policy and academic level, to further support the competition regulatory framework in South Africa.

Bell Dewar recently presented a paper co-authored by Neil Mackenzie and Stephen Langbridge at the Fourth Annual Conference on Competition Law, Economics and Policy in South Africa hosted by the Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal and Mandela Institute.

After a long period of uncertainty relating to advisory opinions by the Competition Commission, a new regulation has been published by the Department of Trade and Industry which reintroduces non-binding Advisory Opinions.