The EFF reportedly want to keep the bans on drinking and smoking in place up to level 1.
that EFF leader Julius Malema personally threw his party’s weight behind Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s proposal to keep banning cigarettes during a presentation on draft regulations that will govern South Africans’ lives in level 3 of the lockdown.
They, however, agreed with Dlamini-Zuma’s plan to keep the cigarette ban in place, which earlier reports suggested she has been pushing to keep in place even if South Africa goes down to level 1. Malema also agreed with this. They quoted an anonymous “party leader” who was in the briefing as telling them: “Malema was vehement about it, vehement against the lifting of the ban.”
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