In a letter drafted by law firm Webber Wentzel, the company says it will go to court if the regulations are not amended by the given date.
On Wednesday, two days before the country moved to a slightly less restrictive level 4 lockdown, Dlamini-Zuma shock millions of smokers when she announced that the ban on the sale of tobacco products would remain in place. This was a direct contradiction of President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement the previous week that alcohol sales would remain banned but cigarettes will be available under the eased level 4 regulations.
"Having been prohibited from selling tobacco products and vaping products from the commencement of the lockdown, our client commenced preparing for the upliftment of the prohibition. In a very short period of time, over 10 000 orders were received from retailers wishing to sell tobacco products. The upliftment of the prohibition was celebrated not only by our client, but by retailers and consumers throughout the country," the letter from Webber Wentzel, which IOL has seen, says.
If the regulations have not been amended by the deadline given by their client, the law firm says BAT will challenge the regulations on the grounds that it: * was included in the Regulations for an ulterior purpose; andOn Thursday, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said that he had been opposed to the retention of the prohibition. Mboweni revealed that the government had already lost R1.
DlaminiZuma It's this type of attitude that SouthAfricans will not tolerate. Respect our ministers, our government and our country. The ban is not permanent. Perhaps it should be just to make a point.
DlaminiZuma Why must every issue turned into race?
DlaminiZuma Who d F are they to give NDZ deadline they must go to court nxxxx
DlaminiZuma But blood is thicker than water (figuratively and literally in this case) !!!?
DlaminiZuma This is a perfect time to quit smoking. You save your money, you save your health☺
DlaminiZuma This is the correct picture of those who want the ban lifted
DlaminiZuma 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬
DlaminiZuma 'British American' dictating to a whole democratic country on what not ban wow.
DlaminiZuma Covid19SA has not only exposed the capitalist establishment as ruthless and heartless, it has strengthened the resolve to pursue more radical progrmans and simultaneously confront both the fundamental & dominant contradictions in our society (ie class & race contradictions)
DlaminiZuma Sounds very good to some of us. Imagine paying R1k instead of R450 for a cotton
DlaminiZuma Bring it on you bloody racists!!!
DlaminiZuma Rupert WILL LOOSE AGAIN, we the public have spoken and we say no to the sale of cigarettes during lockdown. COVID19 is a respiratory illness remember
DlaminiZuma Nkosazana Dlamini akayisabi I court
DlaminiZuma They can go to hell😡
DlaminiZuma What don’t they understand. Smoking kills.
DlaminiZuma President Donald Trump will be re-elected to finish his job
DlaminiZuma They must go to hell, no regulations will be amended
DlaminiZuma They can bring it on! She defeated their boss Rupert before, she will defeat them again