Fita argued before the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday on why it wants regulations that prohibit the sale of tobacco products under level 4 and 3 of the lockdown declared invalid.
South Africans have been unable to purchase cigarettes since the start of the nationwide lockdown on March 26 2020. The restaurant business has been severely affected by the lockdown and some of those in the industry who are now jobless have resorted to trading illicit cigarettes as a means of survival.
He said the World Health Organisation stated last month that no peer-reviewed studies had been published to ascertain these facts. Moerane, however, said Fita's complaint seemed to be that the submissions they made in April, opposing the ban of the sale of tobacco products, were not given sufficient weight.Moerane also took issue with the claim made by Fita that Dlamini-Zuma relied on new evidence obtained after May 1, for promulgating regulation 27 on April 29, which prohibited the sale of tobacco products on level 4.
However, Moerane said it was necessary to include additional information in her court papers because Fita had on May 29 amended its application to also challenge regulation 45, which prohibits the sale of tobacco products on level 3 from June 1.
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