Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel late yesterday unlocked online shopping for consumers and traders for e-commerce.
Ladies and gentlemen, the online shopping doors at the website of your choice are now open to sell almost anything, except of course for those ol’ devils, cigarettes and booze.
This means “the buying and selling of goods using telephones and digital platforms, including the internet and mobile phone-based applications, and for this purpose includes goods to be delivered by a courier or delivery service,” Patel said in Government Gazette number 43096. How people who don’t have access to running water, let alone the data needed to shop or run a business online should do this, wasn’t explained in Patel’s notice, but all the details on how to keep away from each other and the occupational health and safety act were there.
It went on to say retailers “must provide for as many payment options as possible for consumers, that are based on reducing risks of transmission”.
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