On 12 May 2015, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel announced that the Competition Commission would conduct a market inquiry into the retail grocery sector in terms of s43B of the Competition Act, No 89 of 1998 (Act).

Commercial law firm, Werksmans Attorneys, has published information about how employers should deal with employees and the loss of productivity as a result of load shedding.

The government wants to reduce the general speed limit from 60km/h to 40km/h, and has gazetted the proposals In the latest government gazette, published on 11 May, it opened the changes to public comment.

The Competition Commission is taking aim at the retail sector to see if it enjoys sufficient competition after the authorisation by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel of a market inquiry.

The proposed legislation to restrict freight vehicles in peak hours will not reduce road carnage says Gavin Kelly, spokesperson of the Road Freight Association.

The roll out of the updated Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) codes that will come into effect from the on the 1st of May 2015, is evidently much stricter in its scoring and implications for business owners than the older codes.

An application by a Christian group challenging government regulations allowing a wide range of food packaging to be religiously certified and to carry religious signs is on hold as the government takes a second look at labelling.

Amendments to the National Credit Act (NCA), gazetted on Friday (13 March), will make it impossible for ‘unscrupulous’ debt collectors to collect debt that has expired.

When grocery retailers in the Eastern Cape lost their licences to sell wine on their shelves alongside groceries, it was an arbitrary deprivation of property, Shoprite Checkers argued at the Constitutional Court on Thursday. The grocery retailer predicted that the closure of 27 of its table wine sections — as envisaged by the Eastern Cape Liquor Act — would lead to a loss of about R40m in sales a year.