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On 4 April 2025, the Competition Commission of South Africa ("the Commission") published its final Guidelines on Internal Restructuring. These Guidelines clarify how the Commission will determine...

In the 2010/11 financial year 229 mergers were notified to the Commission (up from the 190 mergers notified in the previous year) and 55 mergers were heard by the Competition Tribunal (slightly below the Tribunal's average of 63 mergers per year).

The Competition Tribunal has recently approved the South African leg of the global acquisition by Nestlé S.A. of the infant nutrition business of Pfizer Inc.

South Africa's Competition Commission has launched a comprehensive inquiry into the franchise market, examining whether structural features are restricting competition and limiting participation by small and medium enterprises and historically disadvantaged persons. The inquiry will scrutinize franchise financing mechanisms, contractual terms between franchisors and franchisees, and information asymmetries that may disadvantage prospective franchise owners across key sectors including fast food, constructio

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition has published the Consumer Protection Act Amendment Regulations, 2026 (“2026 Amendments”) in terms of section 120(1)(a) read with section 11(6)...

The Namibian Competition Commission was successfully launched in December 2009, nearly six years after the Namibian Competition Act was passed.

Profanity to some and the embodiment of progress to others, the 4th industrial revolution is making its presence known, in regulatory spheres with the question now being faced by the regulatory bodies being the extent to...

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the "DTIC") published the draft Vertical Restraints Regulations (the "Draft Regulations") on 3 June 2024 in the Government Gazette.

Dual distribution is potentially a very effective method for manufactures to get their products to market.

That may be a take-away from observing the recent clearance by the South African authorities of the DowDuPont global merger of equals covering markets for agricultural products...

Uncertainty has recently arisen as to the future treatment of agreements between competitors following the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the matter between the American National Soda Ash Corporation (Ansac) and Botswana Ash (Pty) Ltd (Botash).

On 19 February 2020, the Competition Commission released its reports on the provisional findings of the Land Based Public Passenger Transport Market Inquiry. Of the two reports published

As promised during his State of the Nation Address on 7 February 2019, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has today, 13 February 2019, signed the Competition Amendment Act, 2019 (the "Amendments") into law.