Over the past year, we have seen the spending patterns of South African consumers change, due to factors such as inflation and also COVID-19. Statistics also show that one in three South African consumers live beyond their means, where low and middle-income groups spend mostly on non-discretion items such as housing and accommodation.

In this podcast, Webber Wentzel partners, Bernadette Versfeld, Candice Meyer, Pooja Dela, Ghassan Sader and Kirsty Kilner discuss the South African consumer sector trends in 2021 – focused on legal issues, they also unpack what to expect moving forward, and identify opportunities for the sector and our country as a whole.

Host: Bernadette Versfeld, Partner, Webber Wentzel

Executive Producer: Andrea Collocott

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) is actively reviewing mergers and pursing several restrictive business practice investigations.
In this podcast, Florence Abebe (Assistant Chief Legal Officer at the FCCPC), Ayodeji Oyetunde (Partner at Aluko & Oyebode) unpack recent competition compliance and trade law developments, and discuss the effect of these developments on firms doing business in Nigeria.
Host: Shawn van der Meulen, Partner, Webber Wentzel
Executive Producer: Elisha Bhugwandeen

by Chandni Gopal, Dylan Cron, Prathik Mohanlall, Kirsten Wolmarans

Considering avenues of mitigating your company's risk exposure, is part and parcel of investing across borders. When dealing with a government entity in your business transaction, are you certain that the local courts will protect your company in cases where there are allegations of bribery by a public official?

Webber Wentzel lawyers Chandni Gopal, Dylan Cron, Prathik Mohanlall and Kirsten Wolmarans discuss corruption allegations that have arisen more frequently in international arbitration and evaluate how arbitrators deal with corruption allegations during arbitrations, and what happens when corruption creeps into the proceedings itself through corrupt witnesses and arbitrators.

Guest for this podcast series are:
Chandni Gopal, senior associate and specialist in commercial dispute resolution, arbitration and judicial review.
Dylan Cron, partner and specialist in corporate and commercial dispute resolution, including administrative, regulatory and constitutional law advice and litigation.
Prathik Mohanlall partner and specialist in corporate and commercial dispute resolution and;

Host: Kirsten Wolmarans, partner and specialist in corporate and commercial litigation and arbitrations
Produced by: Volume
Executive Producer: Andrea Collocott

The COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) has now been active for almost 10 years and has pioneered the development of regional competition law in Africa. In this podcast, Dr Willard Mwemba, the Acting Director and Chief Executive Officer of the CCC, and Daryl Dingley from Webber Wentzel unpack the recent important developments relating to the COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) and the effect of these developments for firms doing business in Africa. This session also focuses on the CCC's priority enforcement objectives and merger control.

Guest for this podcast series are:

Daryl Dingley, Head of the Competition Law Team, Webber Wentzel; and
Dr Willard Mwemba, Acting Director and Chief Executive Officer of the COMESA Competition Commission.

Executive Producer: Elisha Bhugwandeen

With the arrival of South Africa's first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines, many employers are grappling with the possibility of introducing workplace vaccination policies. Over this 6-part series, we will be unpacking various issues from the possibility of mandatory vaccination policies for employees to personal information management of employee vaccination data. In part 6, the final podcast in this series, we explore privacy issues related to Covid-19 vaccines for employers. We are joined by Karl Blom, a privacy expert at Webber Wentzel to discuss these issues.

With the arrival of South Africa's first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines, many employers are grappling with the possibility of introducing workplace vaccination policies. Over this 6-part series, we will be unpacking various issues from the possibility of mandatory vaccination policies for employees to personal information management of employee vaccination data. In part 4 of this series, Mehnaaz Bux from our employment team joins us to have a follow-on discussion on the issues of employee discipline.