The reasons provided by co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for prohibiting the sale of tobacco products from May do not pass rational muster, lawyers for the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association told the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Subel said Dlamini-Zuma's plan had been to get people to stop smoking because, according to her, if they cannot get access to tobacco, they will stop smoking.
“There is no realistic prospect in the real world of Dlamini-Zuma being able to stop people from smoking.” Mlambo told Subel that in her answering affidavit in the case, Dlamini-Zuma had mentioned that if 1% of the 8-million smokers require health assistance, this would overwhelm the health system.“Of the 1% of smokers, she does not mention how many of those have comorbidities,” Subel said.
Subel also took issue with the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa had told the nation on April 23 that sales of cigarettes would resume on May 1, when the country moved to level 4 of the lockdown, but there has been no explanation from him about the U-turn.The application continues.
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