In establishing these Rules, the following circumstances of the workplace or other premises where pickets are intended have been taken into account:1

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1See s 69(5)(a). See also Shoprite Checkers (Ply) Ltd v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation & Arbitration & others (2006) 27 ILJ 2681 (LC) at par 31: "The matrix of permissible conduct that evolves ultimately as the picketing rules is a particular permutation that balances logistics, the nature of the business, the industrial relations history of the enterprise and the union with the impact of the picket so that the rules are determined not too narrowly or too broadly to exacerbate industrial conflict or obstruct the substantive resolution of the dispute."