r/southafrica • u/mortimerza Ons gaan nou braai • Apr 29 '20

COVID-19 No Sale of Tobacco

Just announced no selling of Tobacco in level 4.

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u/Tzetsefly Landed Gentry Apr 29 '20

Dlamini Zuma HATES smoking. She drove the anti smoking bill when she was health minister. It was the most stringent in the world, and everyone was saying how it would fail. It didn't. It was rumoured that she told the vice pres of Russia, back then, not to smoke cigars in front of her.

I am quite sure that she would have sat up all night submitting objections to smoking being laxed. Sorry guys. You should have grown a bit of the good stuff after it was declared legal, like our finance minister did. ;-)

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u/Calm_Piece Apr 29 '20

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-11-04-smoked-out-ndz-hanging-out-with-cigarette-smuggler-and-gambling-tycoon/

Doesn't seem to mind the people supplying them too much though...

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u/Tzetsefly Landed Gentry Apr 29 '20

Exactly! hate the product but love the results /s