By Jannes van der Merwe & Joshua Eveleigh On 3 October 2024, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (“SCZ”) delivered a judgment in the matter of the Competition Tariff Commission v. Ashram Investments (Private) Limited, and Others, setting aside the order of the Administrative Court (“Court a quo”), which had previously set aside the order of the […]
African Antitrust
Trouble in Store: New challenges for Shein and Temu devotees in South Africa
By Nicole Araujo It is no secret that international e-commerce giants Shein and Temu — the “ultra-cheap, ultra-fast retail giants” — have become increasingly popular among the South African population. The entry of these affordable and efficient platforms has certainly given Takealot – the established market leader – a run for its money, sparking reasonable concern for its survival and […]
Lots of C’s: CCC(C) investigates Coca-Cola Contracts in COMESA
By Joshua Eveleigh & Henri Rossouw Coca-Cola is suspected of having engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the common market region via unlawfully restrictive distribution agreements – much is at stake, including a chance for the respondent to justify its contract provisions, and for the CCC to provide more detailed objective reasoning for its ultimate decision […]
More Regional Antitrust: Competition Law in West Africa at the hands of ECOWAS
By Jannes van der Merwe After the successful launch (and by now, first decade) of its Eastern regional counterpart, the COMESA Competition Commission, as of today, West Africa’s ECOWAS body likewise boasts a supra-national antitrust enforcement regime. The Economic Community of West Africa States (“ECOWAS”) was established by fifteen West Africa countries (“member states”) in […]
Insular Africa: Mauritius provides Antitrust Updates
By Jannes van der Merwe The Commission has undertaken a significant number of developments in the past few months, in order to increase its activity and enforcement as well as advocacy work. Most notably, the Commission has contributed to the Protocol on Competition Policy under the African Continental Free Trade Area; hosted Professor Alan Fels […]
African Antitrust Authority Fines META quarter-billion dollars – WhatsApp (with that?)
By Andreas Stargard Nigeria’s FCCPC has imposed a U.S. $220m fine on WhatsApp’s parent company Meta for violating data privacy laws, continuing the FCCPC’s consumer-protection streak When it rains, it pours. And when the nascent FCCPC (on whose relatively youthful existence we have reported extensively) issues a fine on a global mega corporation like META (or BAT […]
