JOHANNESBURG – The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association says it's already preparing to file court papers for leave to appeal a previous ruling which found against it in the tobacco sales ban ma
JOHANNESBURG – The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association says it's already preparing to file court papers for leave to appeal a previous ruling which found against it in the tobacco sales ban matter.Fita said it had studied the latest judgment, and was still adamant that it stood on sound, reasonable ground to have the ban overturned.The High Court in Pretoria found that Fita had not been able to demonstrate that its appeal had reasonable prospects of success.
But the tobacco association now says it anticipated the ruling – given that the same bench of the court dismissed its initial bid to have the ban scrapped. The organisation’s chair Sinenhlanhla Mnguni said: “We are confident once we petition the SCA, they will come to a different decision to the one reached by the High Court.”
South Africa is the only country in the world with a ban on cigarette sales to mitigate the adverse effects of COVID-19. But Fita said if the country’s accelerating infection rate was anything to go by, this strategy was an exercise in futility.
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