A Competitor's Guide To COVID-19 – Comprehensive Analysis

Despite lockdowns and various preventative measures being taken by numerous jurisdictions around the globe, the devastating impact of COVID-19 ("the coronavirus") continues at a startling pace. Locally, the pandemic will highlight the inequality amongst the different classes of South Africans. How will the South African Government deal with and protect the various classes of South Africans from the socio-economic complications that the Corona Virus arrives with? Does Competition Policy have a roll to play?

In conjunction with our previous article, in which we addressed the above issues, we shall continue to focus on the action taken by the Department of Trade and Industry ("the DTI"), which is home to the competition authorities being the Competition Commission ("the Commission"), the Competition Tribunal ("the Tribunal"), and the Competition Appeal Court ("the CAC"). The actions taken by the DTI were, and continue to be, aimed at alleviating the socio-economic