Ten must-read Covid-19 articles of the week
As the economic costs of lockdown become more severe, a toke and a tipple could have gone a long way
1. Smokers reacted with shock and outrage to the decision to remove the sale of cigarettes from level 4 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-04-29-exercise-allowed-but-still-no-tobacco-products-during-level-4-lockdown/), which kicked in on Friday. But at least you can now run out those frustrations.
2. “What the performance of the rather Soviet-sounding National Command Council made abundantly clear,” writes Financial Mail’s Shirley de Villiers (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2020-05-01-lockdown-20-we-see-your-2000-cigarette-submissions-and-raise-you-270000/), “is the incoherence and lack of vision that has prevented the government from making inroads on any of the big issues bedevilling SA.”..
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