Competition Commission due for June

The Competition Act, passed last year, establishes the Commission and the Competition Authority, headed by a Chief Executive Officer and technical staff charged with ensuring fair play in industry. The Commission will be the Authority's adjudicating body. On Wednesday, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu told BusinessWeek that the selection of commissioners was ongoing and would be followed by the recruitment of a CEO.

"Once the commissioners are in place, they will go about setting up the organisation which includes the employment of the CEO. Once the organisation is up and running, there will be an education process for Batswana to understand what's contained in the law, what they can do if they are disgruntled or when they have not been helped satisfactorily. "This Commission will build capacity among our lawyers as it is a new field for them; there will also be capacity building in other areas such as the corporates, government etc," she said.