Goodwill Shivambu takes a puff of a cigarette at Nkowankowa, Tzaneen, during the national lockdown./ Gallo Images / Lefty Shivambu
Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association filed court papers in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria yesterday, challenging the ban during lockdown level 4, citing an omission of such prohibition of trade in the provisions of the initial laws established in terms of the National Disaster Act. They put the blame squarely on cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the person allegedly behind the government's move to ban cigarette sales.Fita wants the court to force the government to, among others, lift the ban on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
IsaacPat Because Covid is a respiratory disease, that means your lungs are affected, junk food goes into your stomach...do you get it?
IsaacPat Cyril lied 🤥
IsaacPat Government focused on lung health which can be compromised due to smoking and Covid affects the lungs. If food affects the lungs the same way as tobacco then they can have an argument.
IsaacPat Command council of destruction and Poverty creation, brain fart decisions is nonsensical and destroy anything the personally don't like, of cause the do like things mentioned, civil obedience is in question, not rational decision making
IsaacPat At some point when people needed Police during an emergency... cigarettes statecapture day40oflockdown But you idiots will never talk about it
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