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On 20 July 2012 the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) issued reasons for its unconditional approval of the large merger between Gas Corporation of South Africa (SOC) Limited (PetroSA), Pioneer Natural Resources South Africa (Proprietary) Limited (Pioneer SA) and Petroleum South Cape (Proprietary) Limited (PSC).

On 9 October 2012 the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) handed down its judgment in SACCAWU's appeal against the Competition Tribunal's conditional approval of the acquisition by Wal-Mart of a controlling interest in Massmart.

The Department of Trade and Industry has proposed new direct marketing requirements under the Consumer Protection Act.

The Protection of Personal Information Bill 2009 was approved by the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development today.

On 5 November 2012 the Competition Tribunal provided its reasons for approving, with conditions, the acquisition of ArcelorMittal South Africa's (AMSA) interests in the entities that constitute the Scaw Group (including Scaw South Africa and Consolidated Wire Industries).

On 12 September 2012 the Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court (CAC), Dennis Davis, while addressing Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Justice stated that there were too many levels of appeals in South Africa's judicial system.

On 24 January 2012, the Commission unconditionally approved the intermediate merger between Compass and Supercare.

On 31 January 2012, the Commission approved the acquisition by the IDC of Eerste Flambeau subject to certain conditions.

The Competition Tribunal has recently given reasons for its conditional approval of the acquisition of the title and interest to the accounts and receivables relating to the South African private label store card portfolio of Edcon.

On 19 June 2012 the Competition Tribunal confirmed as a consent order the settlement agreement entered into between the Competition Commission (Commission) and Oceana Limited and Oceana Brands Limited (Oceana) on 9 May 2012

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

On 22 October 2012 the Competition Commission (Commission) recommended that the Tribunal approve the acquisition of Xstrata Plc (Xstrata) by Glencore International Plc (Glencore), subject to employment-related conditions.

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).

On 25 May Webber Wentzel issued an update in respect of the targets indicated as years 6-10 in the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice coming into force.

On 10 May 2012, the Minister of Mineral Resources (the Minister) announced in her Parliamentary budget vote speech that the Department of Mineral Resources (the DMR) planned, before the end of June 2012, to commence the first round of the 'auctioning off' of prospecting and mining rights which have lapsed under section 56 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (the MPRDA).