The devastating impact of COVID-19 is being felt across the
globe. 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 Coronavirus
arrives with? Does Competition Policy have a role to play?
The Government should be applauded for taking swift
interventionist action against the pandemic; in particular we shall
be focussing 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 are aimed at alleviating
the socio-economic harms presented by the Coronavirus.
