The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) said on Wednesday that this undertaking was part of a negotiated settlement in which it had agreed to drop its legal challenge against government over the tobacco sales ban.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has undertaken that, should she seek to reinstate a temporary prohibition on the sale of tobacco and related products at any stage in the future, she would first follow a public participation process. File photo.Co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will follow a “public participation process” should there be a renewed ban on the sale of tobacco products during the lockdown.
“Over the course of the last week, our legal representatives have been engaged in settlement negotiations with the office of the state attorney acting on behalf of both the minister of co-operative governance & traditional affairs as well as the president of the Republic of SA,” Fita chairperson Sinenhlanhla Mnguni said on Wednesday.
• Any invitation to or announcement of a consultation process would be issued publicly. Fita and other interested parties would be free to participate in that process. This did not happen when the initial ban was implemented.
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