The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association will be reinstating its legal bid to overturn the ongoing ban on the sale of cigarettes, as surprisingly announced by Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Wednesday night.The body had earlier suspended its proposed court action following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement last week that the sale of cigarettes would be allowed.
Consulting with our attorneys and senior counsel on the urgent court application first thing in the morning. Let a court of law adjudicate on this issue once and for all.Members of the National Coronavirus Command Council, as led by Dlamini-Zuma, offered a detailed briefing from Pretoria on the regulations that will be gazetted tomorrow on the Covid-19 level 4 restrictions.
Read the recently released regulations as they will be gazetted in the document below . If you do not see the embed, click or tapDlamini-Zuma started the briefing by reminding the public that the lockdown will not be ending, but merely be eased using a risk-adjusted strategy.
Stop threatening and do something.
This must go to court
The Tobacco companies operating in South Africa has no respect for anyone let alone South Africa as sovereign State with a Constitutional Democracy
Futsek
Black market price just jumped to R1000 per carton.
HealthZA DlaminiZuma we all know smoking is unhealthy but what about the people who have been smoking just about all of their adult life, that need to smoke or they have withdrawal symptoms that could land them in hospital?
Johan Rupert must be screaming right now !
CyrilRamaphosa you thought about us and the economy. DlaminiZuma you took it away while we have plans. The curve is really not fair to us. You can't cut two days before
It's real hard to route for a Tobacco Association tbh
But the cigarettes affects the lungs I'm saying it's a good thing that they have been banned
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