The Southern African Agri-Initiative and the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association will persist with their respective court actions, despite the bans being lifted on alcohol and tobacco product sales.
The Southern African Agri-Initiative said the relaxation of the bans on alcohol and cigarette sales was 'too little and too late' for farmers.The Southern African Agri-Initiative and the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association will persist with their respective court actions, despite the bans being lifted on alcohol and tobacco product sales.
“Job losses have already resulted in a social crisis in the wine industry, where the loss of business is not only limited to the 2020 production year,” De Jager“Overflowing cellars have no storage capacity in tanks and barrels, and have already notified producers they are unable to allocate 2021 quotas.
“The arguments and information used by co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the court applications brought by Saai, British American Tobacco SA and others to justify the ban on selling cigarettes are far removed from the reality of a demolished value chain, where billions in state revenue have been lost and businesses, farming enterprises and job opportunities are unable to survive,” he said.
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