djvu Advanced Enforcement of Competition Law in Zimbabwe

This book is an advanced follow-up to my publication Enforcement of Competition Law in Zimbabwe: Lessons for a Nascent Competition Authority that was published in December 2025. The book goes further from giving operationalisation guidelines and lessons to fledgling competition authorities in East and Southern Africa, based on the founding experiences of the national competition authority of Zimbabwe, to targeting more experienced competition practitioners, and law firms involved in competition case litigation.

The book scrutinizes the handling of competition cases in Zimbabwe, with brief outlines of prominent cases investigated by the competition authority, inclusive of both global and local mergers and acquisitions, and restrictive business practices, and analyses the creation of competition case law in Zimbabwe. It delves deeply into the doctrinal, comparative, and empirical methodologies used in researching the formulation, drafting, and enforcement of the country's competition law.

Doctrinal legal research in analysing the relevant statutes, treaties, case law, and institutional rules that govern national and regional competition regimes, particularly those of Zimbabwe and COMESA, mapped against the dominant EU competition law, that was undertaken, is outlined in the book. Comparative research methodology was also utilised to contrast different national and regional regimes and extract best practices, and judicious use of leading competition case studies, and is explained in the book. The legal analysis is enriched with economics and political science in an interdisciplinary approach to explain sovereignty concerns and apparent resistance to supranational competition authority at regional and continental levels. The changing political economy in Zimbabwe that influenced the effective implementation and enforcement of competition policy and law in the country, from the late 1990s to the present, is thus thoroughly analysed in the book.

The enforcement of competition law in Zimbabwe at national level has direct linkages of a comity nature with regional competition law enforcement that serve as the diplomatic and procedural glue that bridges localised enforcement with cross-border enforcement. The book thus also scrutinises Zimbabwe's active involvement in the formulation and execution of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Protocol on Competition Policy, and the AfCFTA Protocol on Competition.