Competition Commission's propaganda war
Media Briefing
Will the real Competition Commission stand up and show us what they are about?
Consumer protection? Encouraging small business? Anti-corporate collusion? Or something else entirely?
Recent decisions by the Competition Commission show signs of schizophrenia
- Fines of the "2010 world cup" construction / engineering firms were lauded as a victory against price fixing and cartels, but are they?
- Any criminal case against the construction firms is unlikely to succeed
- The bread higher price fixing scandal was nothing of the sort, and the class action against the bakers is unlikely to hold up at appeal stage
- Why admissions of guilt cannot and should not be taken as an admission of actual guilt, and do not mean that society has been wronged - so why do firms do it?
Speaker: Robert W Vivian, Professor of Finance and Insurance,
School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: FMF Office, Johannesburg
Cost: Free and includes light sandwich lunch
More info:
FMF | Prime Meridian House | Bryanston Gate Office Park | 170 Curzon Road | Bryanston. Map on website