Tag: price gouging
Competition Commission overreach
The Competition Commission has aroused the ire of mainstream economists and analysts with its latest Essential Food Pricing Monitoring Report for 2021 to 2022. It has charged the maize as well as the meat and poultry markets with ‘excessive pricing’. This time, even the halls of academia through the likes of Prof. Johan Kirsten of Stellenbosch University, shook in disagreement.
Effects of COVID-19 Block Exemption for the retail property sector
On 23 April 2021, the Competition Commission published a notice in the Government Gazette in which it, inter alia, indicated that it had published its final non-confidential report of the commission’s findings on the impact of the COVID-19 Block Exemptions and the commission’s advocacy and enforcement work.
REPORT | Global advertising law developments in response to COVID-19
We have released a report on advertising law developments around the world in response to COVID-19 pandemic. As the world faces a terrible pandemic, there’s been an enormous effort by regulators and others to protect consumers. This special report tracks how regulators and others have responded to advertising issues, such as fake cures and price gouging, related to COVID-19.
