This webinar series seeks to explore the Competition Amendment Act (2019)’s introduction of new legal standards applicable for the evaluation of prohibited practices and merges. This webinar focuses on the legal standards applicable to excessive pricing enforcement. Where the Competition Commission of South Africa has had little success at prosecuting excessive pricing cases prior to amendment, since then - combined with the Covid-19 pandemic necessitating the utilization of price gouging under the rubric of excessive prices - South Africa has seen an increase in the number of these cases initiated and a higher rate of prosecutorial success.
Join us to learn more about this evolution in South African competition law with insights from
regulators and practitioners!
MEET THE PANELISTS
Mpumelelo “Mpumi” Tshabalala is a senior legal counsel at the Competition Commission of South Africa. Prior to this, she was a senior case manager at the Competition Tribunal of South Africa. Mpumi has been a competition law associate at Bowmans and has served as a clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Mpumi holds a Masters in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London, UK) and an LLB and Bachelor of Social Sciences degrees attained from the University of Cape Town. Mpumi is an admitted attorney and also a Chevening Scholar.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Labs and is the GW Competition & Innovation Lab's Initiative Lead for South Africa.
Katlego Monareng is an advocate in private practice with the Pan African Bar Association of South Africa, in Johannesburg and has been since January 2020. Katlego Monareng’s areas of practice include competition law, regulatory law, environmental law, administrative law and general commercial law. Katlego Monareng was previously employed by the Competition Commission of South Africa from 2009 to 2019.
Lara Granville is a Director in Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s Competition Law practice. Lara started her career as a clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa before completing her articles at Deneys Reitz Attorneys in 2009. During this period, she also lectured Constitutional Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has been recognized and ranked by Chambers Global (2019–2022) and The Legal 500 EMEA (2018–2024). Lara holds a BA and LLB from the University of Witwatersrand; and an LLM from New York University.
Maya Swart is a Principal Legal Counsel in the Competition Commission of South Africa, Legal Services Division and has been since 2011. Prior to joining the Competition Commission of SA she was a director at a law firm in private practice. Maya presented lectures as an expert lecturer on the certificate in Statutory Competition Law and the LLM-Module in Statutory Competition Law at the University of Pretoria from 2012 to 2019. She is an admitted attorney with right of appearance in the High Court of South Africa.
Thembalethu Buthelezi is a principal in the Competition and Regulatory Economics practice at Genesis Analytics. She has significant competition law and economics experience across the agriculture and agro-processing, digital markets as well as the health and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining Genesis, Thembalethu was a principal economist in the Economic Research Bureau of the Competition Commission of South Africa. Thembalethu has a master's degree in Economic Science from the University of the Witwatersrand. She also has a master's degree in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona School of Economics.
