Prof Willem Boshoff, Co-Director of the CCLE, has recently published a policy paper on trends in South African competition policy over the last three decades, commissioned by Economic Research Southern Africa. Prof Boshoff argues that merger control and anti-cartel enforcement have followed two different and increasingly divergent paths. Merger control has been increasingly shaped by policy preferences, while anti-cartel enforcement has historically been closely tied to prior case law and developments in economic theory. While there are also important countertrends in the two areas, Prof Boshoff argues that these divergent paths present policymakers with a choice about the future direction of South African competition policy. The full paper can be viewed and downloaded here:
https://econrsa.org/publications/competition-policy-in-south-africa-from-1994-to-now/