Vusi hit the nail on the head. This is a whole lot of hype, Paul nailing his predecessors and hoping to get the glory of being 'honest' - come on people. Some of the senior management has been around since the days of Cooper & De Beer, the distributors of CDSA the cartel it's self. Lafarge and AfriSam have personnel from the same era but that does not mean the pricing or the cement sales into the geographic area's are still fixed as they once were. Lets look at the comments from the man himself: Paul Stuiver said; "Management and the board have taken full responsibility and we believe that we have acted quickly, decisively and correctly by cooperating with the Commission. We were shocked and disappointed when these issues were revealed and we apologise. We want to reassure the public and all who work for PPC that we do not tolerate this kind of behaviour. We will get rid of it and ensure that this does not happen again."� Stuiver added; "Although PPC has received conditional leniency, the industry investigation by the Commission is still ongoing and they have asked that we do not share further information on specific events, the timing or the people involved. What I can say is that people who seem to have been involved, are no longer employed at PPC." And then followed up a day later: Former employees introduced a practice of sharing information on sales. While current employees continued the practice, they won't be punished as they weren't aware the practice wasn't allowed, Stuiver said. This just smacks of Joost vd Westhuizen's it wasn't me in the video "but read my book" and not to mention Bill Clinton ….. Man you got to love people.

Much ado about nothing. The headline is misleading. There was no cartel or market-sharing. Market sharing is different from sharing market information. This market information was given to the C&CI who were supposed to aggregate it so it would lose its identity. Makes a good story and makes the competition commission feel good about themselves. This doesn't count - need to get rid of the real cartels and monopolies - i.e. all the state owned enterprises, non-value adding government departments, the unions, etc. That would be a real victory. By the way this doesn't and wouldn't effect cement prices one little bit. And I am afraid JohnnyB this hasn't contributed one cent to the rise in the prices of the stadiums.

It is really tragically sad to observe the lengths that most people go to in their quest for wealth; this, in virtually every instance, as a means to acquiring all the totally unnecessary things that this world has to offer. What man or woman, at the end of their short life on earth, who look back on their time on earth to discover that all they had and enjoyed here was only everything that they ever had need of, and nothing more, would enter the spirit realm with eternal regret and remorse. Only an absolute fool could reason like this; and God does not suffer (tolerate) a fool. - And what of those, who, through their greed and wanton corruption, have had everything that their lustful flesh demanded, get to the cross-over place to find that there is absolutely nothing waiting for them that they can even remotely identify with. How great will be their rejoicing at their non-existing, eternal prospects. Time to change has arrived. In fact; from a very brief news flash on DSTV channel 403 last night, it is very clear that there is no more time to waste on chasing the wind!!! Time to wake up is "NOW." NOT TOMORROW!

PPC has a one of the lagest billboards in Botswana on their silo at Naledi Gaborone with the following slogan. " More than 95% of all constuction in Botswana is done with PPC cement" Now it all makes sense.

Another crooked deal to hit consumers in the pocket...This lying and manipulative figures need to be locked up.Parliament must toughen up sentences for this type of behaviour.At the end of the day it is the consumers that take the flack for uncompetetive prices...No wonder the costs of building 2010 stadiums has more than doubled...Utterly disgusted.

Every big business in SA is in collusion as cartel. The big business is running rings around the consumer and the incompetent and inexperienced government bureaucracy. SA consumers are being fleeced left and right by the crooks in government and big business and unless something very drastic is undertaken by consumers and trade unions, we are going become another Zimbabwe.