Somali traders could pay the price for authorities' failure to uphold basic rights Unknown
The commission's apparent response to the deal was that "not all such agreements fell foul of competition laws", and in a bureaucratic twist more common in government, the commission announced that it could initiate a complaint if it had "reason to believe the law is being breach...
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| Published in | Cape times (South Africa) |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Cape Town
Independent Online (South Africa)
31.08.2009
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| Summary: | The commission's apparent response to the deal was that "not all such agreements fell foul of competition laws", and in a bureaucratic twist more common in government, the commission announced that it could initiate a complaint if it had "reason to believe the law is being breached". This emerges from findings given in a report commissioned by the City of Cape Town last year on spaza shops in Khayelitsha, which found many attacks on Somali-owned businesses were motivated by "issues of pricing, consumer choice and the growth of supermarket-like spaza shops that had an impact on retail business in the area". Foreign-owned spazas had "evolved into mini superettes" and "were more innovative" and offered "a greater diversity of products and cheaper prices" through high levels of collective buying. |
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