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FITA agrees to shelve Supreme Court appeal on tobacco ban in deal with minister

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The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association has agreed to withdraw its Supreme Court appeal on the country's bitterly contested lockdown ban on tobacco sales, nine days after the prohibition was lifted.

Cape Town – The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association said on Wednesday it has agreed to withdraw its Supreme Court appeal on the country's bitterly contested lockdown ban on tobacco sales, nine days after the prohibition was lifted.

The minister did not undertake to invite input from FITA specifically, nor did she concede her position that the initial decision to ban the sale of cigarettes was sound in law. The association entered negotiations with the state last Monday, as Dlamini Zuma gazetted the lifting of the ban. However, should the ban be reinstated if the country returned to tougher lockdown restrictions from the current alert level 2, the decision would be taken in accordance with the law.

 

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