22nd February 2021
The Competition and Consumer Authority (CCA)âs latest annual report appears to confirm long-held suspicions that the arbiter is a toothless watchdog.
The report revealed that Komatsu Botswana (Pty) Ltd and Barloworld Equipment Botswana (Pty) Ltd engage in a slew of abuses that border on dominance by systematically excluding and refusing to register or list suppliers on their vendors list â a charge not limited to both companies in the broader scheme of things though.
Both companies have enjoyed decades of uninterrupted unique and huge business support in the form of tenders to supply machinery for diamond operations owned by Debswana Mining Company â a partnership between Botswana Government and De Beers.