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Foreword

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Introduction: Challenges to a more open economy

Sumayya Goga and Thando Vilakazi

1. Key competition challenges in the South African economy: Large firms, concentration and lack of dynamism

Jason Bell and Sumayya Goga

SECTION ONE: ENTERING MARKETS: WHAT DO RIVALS REQUIRE?

2. Entry challenges in vertically integrated industries: Insights from three agro-processing value chains in South Africa

Maria Nkhonjera

3. Barriers to entry in concentrated industries: A case study of Soweto Gold

Pamela Mondliwa

4. Confronting entry barriers in South Africa’s grocery retail sector

Shingie Chisoro-Dube and Reena das Nair

5. Contesting the skies: Entry and rivalry in the South African airline industry

Thando Vilakazi

6. South African community newspaper publishers: The effects of exclusionary strategies on independent firms

Avias Ngwenya

7. The competition implications of recent developments in the liquid fuels supply chain

Anthea Paelo, Genna Robb and Thando Vilakazi

SECTION TWO: REGULATING FOR RIVALRY IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES

8. Bridging the digital divide in South Africa: Case studies in incumbency versus competition

Genna Robb

9. Competition, barriers to entry and inclusive growth in retail banking: Capitec case study

Trudi Makhaya and Nicholas Nhundu

10. Breaking barriers through different business models: Mobile money in South Africa and Kenya

Anthea Paelo

SECTION THREE: REVIEWING POLICIES FOR INCLUSION IN SOUTH AFRICA

11. Assessing the record of competition law enforcement in opening up the economy

Simon Roberts

12. Lost opportunities? Barriers to entry and Transnet’s procurement of 1 064 locomotives

Rod Crompton and Lauralyn Kaziboni

13. Black economic empowerment and barriers to entry

Pamela Mondliwa and Simon Roberts

Conclusion: Towards a more competitive and open economy

Sumayya Goga, Simon Roberts and Thando Vilakazi

Contributors

Index