Crumbs (Bread Cartel) Quiz

True or false? The unethical collusion of the bread supplying companies has an effect on the general health levels of the population.

• True

• False

True or false? When you artificially raise the bread price across the market, this has the effect of limiting some children's cognitive development.

• True

• False

What happened to the manager who colluded on behalf of Tiger Brands in 2006?

• Today he is a senior manager at Premier Foods.

• He got fired.

• He got fired and arrested.

• He was banned from holding an executive position in a food manufacturing company.

True or False? Tiger Brands finally accepted that they were guilty of unethical and unlawful collusion and agreed to pay a fine of 97.5 Million Rand.

• True.

• False.

What happened to the Tiger Brands CEO?

• He took responsibility and resigned.

• He is now a minister in Parliament.

• Nothing happened to him. The company simply paid the fine.

What happened in the bread industry after the guilty companies were fined?

• The price of bread went down, so it was a victory for the poor.

• The price of bread still increased.

True or False? The collusion to increase bread prices violated the constitutional right to access to sufficient food.

• True.

• False.

True or False? People get 6 months in prison for stealing two Bananas at Pick n Pay but executives involved in colluding to steal millions of Rands from South Africans do not get jail time.

• True.

• False.

True or false? Noncompetitive behaviour is endemic in South Africa.

• True.

• False.