Think this will end up at the Competition Appeal Court? I get that the administrative penalty thing is supposed to act as a deterrent, but it's really a fine for annoying the state if you think about it. No one wins except the Comp Comm/Trib...which needs to pay a silk or two after the bread cartel challenges. R4-bar apiece sounds an awful lot if all that really happened was one meeting, having just read again how the fines are calculated. And what of the much-whispered-about Cape Town meeting...? On a tangent: think anyone who attended that Gauteng meeting applied for leniency from the Comp Comm? Another tangent: I remember there was a hubber who said he'd made two appearances at the Comp Comm at around that time - one to do with this issue and the other to answer a complaint laid by another hubber on a different issue (although I believe the complainant in both issues was actually the same hubber...) That seemed to involve a dealer allegedly telling a wholesaler not to do business with another person in the industry. Odd case. Don't think it was ever pronounced on. Neither said anything, and neither of them post here anymore. Funny old industry...
