The Competition Commission (Commission) brought an application to the Tribunal to confirm a settlement agreement entered into with Singapore Airlines.

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

Recently, the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) reversed the decision of the Competition Tribunal in the matter of Nationwide Poles CC and Sasol Oil (Pty) Ltd.

Swartz maintained from the outset that Tulisa had not contravened the Competition Act.

Directors and managers in South Africa will face personal criminal liability and jail time for participation in a cartel.

South African Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, has announced that, from 1 May 2016, cartel conduct (price fixing, market allocation and collusive tendering) comprises criminal activity.

If airlines are to survive the impact of the escalating oil price, and the global slowdown in economic activity, then they must become more efficient and increase their load factors, while maintaining their revenues per seat.

In 2011 the Southern Pipeline cases resulted in the setting a new guidance on the method of calculating administrative penalties for price-fixing contraventions.

In the last two months the Competition Commission has lost three cartel cases before the Competition Tribunal.

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).

The South African antitrust authorities kept their promise to combat cartel activity in 2007. A number of cases involving price fixing and market division in key sectors of the South African economy were referred by the Competition Commission to the Competition Tribunal for adjudication.

Twenty of these happened more than three years before the second initiation. Pickfords relied on section 67(1) to challenge the inclusion of these instances in the complaint.

In the recent case of Doorware CC v Mercury Fittings CC [2025] JOL 68741 (SCA), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) addressed a dispute pertaining to the enforceability...

South Africa's Competition Tribunal has dismissed a complaint referred by the Competition Commission against Totalgaz Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd, Oryx Oil South Africa...

Dominant firms are prohibited by the Competition Act 1998 from charging excessive prices to the detriment of consumers. Why only dominant firms? The presumption is that a small firm will lose its customers to its competitors if it charges excessive prices.

It's 7am on Thursday 3 August 2000 at the offices of PPC ("Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited").

Now, for the first time since the inception of the Competition Act, there is a real and definite focus on criminal investigations linked to contraventions of the Competition Act.

With competition authorities worldwide scrutinising the labour market, non-compete and no-poaching agreements between employers and employees may be regarded as anti-competitive...