BAT goes to court to fight continued ban on tobacco sales
The ban on the sale of cigarettes has been particularly controversial as the president had first announced that they would be sold under level 4 of the lockdown
29 May 2020 - 09:40
British American Tobacco (BAT) SA, the local division of the world’s second-largest cigarette producer, is heading to court to try to overturn the continued prohibition of the sale of tobacco products during SA’s Covid-19 lockdown.
It has been illegal to sell cigarettes during the course of the lockdown which was imposed during the national state of disaster, in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. ..
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