is heading to court to try to overturn the continued prohibition of the sale of tobacco products during SA’s Covid-19 lockdown.
The government has cited health reasons as part of the argument for the continued ban, even as the lockdown has been lifted incrementally. The continued ban on the sale of cigarettes has been particularly controversial as the president had first announced that cigarettes would be sold under level 4 of the lockdown, but then backtracked barely a week later and before it could be implemented.
The company, which has 78% of the market share of the legal cigarette trade in SA, said it would be supported in the court action by Japan Tobacco International, as well as groups and organisations representing the tobacco value chain across the country, including consumers, tobacco farmers and retailers.
Finally they get to it. Now that they have international backup
Wow, so they actually managed to grow a pair.
Anyway it is British American cigarettes
Give Govt hell BATPress and fita_sa. Go for the jugular. May DlaminiZuma never touch peoples Rights to choice again, regardless of the circumstances. PresidencyZA
Expect resistance from the fat thing in the doek - she's making millions from smuggling via her gangster bosses.
julius provoked them
Who takes BAT still serious? After licking N©igarette front-and backside their board should be replaced.
Long overdue. And I am a non smoker.
Fighting for the right to give you lung cancer , emphysema
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