Cambridge Food in Jozini, northern KwaZulu-Natal, has been ordered to donate to a charity organisation for charging excessive prices for maize meal.
“The commission’s investigation established that before the declaration of a national state of disaster, Cambridge Food Jozini was selling the 25kg Top White maize meal at far lower prices.
The commission said it has to date referred and settled 30 Covid-19 related cases valued at over R15m, of which more than R5m has been donated to the Solidarity Fund. “The commission urges firms to comply with the Competition Act during the state of national disaster and desist from exploiting consumers.”“The incident involved a single store in Jozini mistakenly applying a supplier-motivated price adjustment to existing stock in the store. No other stores took this action.”
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