by sundelbolong | May 20, 2020 | Business & Finance News
Competition Commissioner Thembinkosi Bonakele told Parliament on Tuesday that while 13 settlements worth R12 million have been secured from companies for uncompetitive behaviour and pricing, prosecutions are still pending for price increases as high as...
by sundelbolong | May 6, 2020 | Business & Finance News
The Competition Commission has slammed Dis-Chem’s argument that the retailer increased its face mask prices in March in line with other competitors. The retailer, which is being prosecuted for price gouging, said it was forced to increase prices of surgical...
by sundelbolong | May 4, 2020 | Business & Finance News
Dis-Chem, which is currently answering a case of price gouging, has accused the Competition Commission of “scapegoating” the pharmaceutical retailer to show the public that it can prosecute excessive pricing as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic....
by sundelbolong | Apr 30, 2020 | Business & Finance News
As early as the beginning of March, the booming Cape Film industry was already feeling the heat that the novel coronavirus was yet to bring to the rest of South African businesses. But when the lockdown came on 27 March, Tatenda Kowo’s worst fears came to the...
