The ban on the sale of tobacco products has been in place since the initial lockdown on 26 March.
The South African Informal Traders Alliance has written to the National Coronavirus Command Council , calling for the ban on tobacco products to be lifted.
“Our spaza shops and traders, according to statistics provided by them, depend to a very large degree on the sale of tobacco products, and in some instances it accounts for up to 50% of total sales,” Saita president Rosheda Muller said. Dlamini-Zuma said the U-turn came after the government received more than 2 000 submissions from the public opposing the sale of tobacco products.
Saita – which conducts business in communities as traders – claims that smokers are now risking their lives by travelling outside their communities to seek tobacco products.
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