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Category Archives: Food Security
Food retailers pricing being scrutinised
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintRisha Maduray, SABC News, 29 March 2023 The Competition Commission has warned that food retailers will face prosecution at the Competition Tribunal, should it find that pricing laws were breeched. Read More
SA consumers surviving on credit in cost-of-living crisis
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintIna Opperman, The Citizen, 28 March 2023 Another report has confirmed that South African consumers are living on credit to survive the cost-of-living crisis. Read More
Food price increases ‘unjustified’, says Competition Commission
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintOrrin Singh, Sowetan Live, 28 March 2023 As South Africans tried to recover from the negative economic impact of Covid-19, the prices of sunflower oil, white and brown bread and maize meal were “opportunistically” and “unjustifiably” increased from January to … Continue reading
Joburg hawkers hope to be included in probe of fresh produce prices
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintVeronica Mokhoali, Eyewitness News, 24 March 2023 Street vendors in the City of Joburg are calling on the Competition Commission to not exclude them in their probe into market conditions of the fresh produce supply chain in the country. Read … Continue reading
Fresh produce price hikes have hit poor households- Competition Commission
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintVeronica Mokhoali, Eyewitness News, 23 March 2023 The Competition Commission (CC) said that the obscure increases in the price of fresh produce have had a disproportionate effect on low-income households. Read More
Workers demand penalties: Farmers’ greed cause of ‘shocking work’ conditions
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintGround Up, 24 March 2023 New research on several Fairtrade-certified wine farms in the Cape Winelands has found that the working and living conditions at some of these farms fall short of the standards set by Fairtrade International. Read More
