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Restaurants and taverns traded in alcohol despite the bans

Opinion Tebele Luthuli - 3 Oct 2020

An entirely new supply chain has now been created, and of course it’s untaxed

Stronger tobacco control regulation will reduce harm

Article Sharon Nyatsanza & Savera Kalideen - 5 Sep 2020

South Africa’s tobacco industry interference statistics are improving year on year, but more needs to be done

Sars plan for illicit tobacco still being refined

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 22 Aug 2020

Meanwhile, billions of illegal cigarettes are flooding the informal markets as lockdown regulations are lifted at last

Vigorous policing of petty crime during the pandemic suggests a Pyrrhic defeat

Coronavirus Casper Lӧtter - 29 Jul 2020

The ideological aims of the criminal justice system in dysfunctional societies, like South Africa, is to indirectly legitimise the inequitable economic system

Schools to close for a month due to Covid infection surge — Ramaphosa

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe & Lester Kiewit - 23 Jul 2020

The academic year will extend into 2021 in a ‘deliberately cautious approach’ as president confirms South Africa has world’s fifth-highest Covid-19 infection tally

Cigarette sales ban battle looms

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 5 Jun 2020

Tobacco companies are fighting to lift the ban on cigarette sales, but research shows people are still smoking — and this is feeding the black market

Smokers’ fight to light up moves online

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 28 May 2020

‘Sweeties’ (cigarettes) for R150, and marching on Parliament — an insight into the social-media groups popping up to push back against lockdown regulations

‘Those who zol’: Dangerous discourses in a time of crisis

Coronavirus Fiona Anciano, Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock, Mmeli Dube, Mfundo Majola & Boitumelo Papane - 15 May 2020

Smoking out social tobacco users as unique spreaders of the coronavirus sends out the wrong messages

Covid-19: Sharing isn’t caring

Coronavirus Paddy Harper - 14 May 2020

No break for the smokers and drinkers from Prez Pozi and Dr No, but we’re still zolling ...

Eusebius McKaiser: A few critics are smoking some strong stuff

Coronavirus Eusebius McKaiser - 6 May 2020

Blame and praise can’t be apportioned to individual leaders of a collective Cabinet

Lockdown syndrome: The latest fallout from the Covid-19 crisis

Article Charles R Stith - 1 May 2020

Is this “syndrome” another symptom that the lockdown has made us all a little bit crazy? Is it a symbol that we all just need to get a grip on it?

Level four lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma stubs out South Africa’s hopes for a puff

Article Paddy Harper - 29 Apr 2020

Some industries will open but the tobacco ban remains in place, contradicting the president’s earlier remarks

Tobacco and a tipple gave comfort during times of war

Article Will Gordon - 27 Apr 2020

Allied forces in the two world wars were provided with cigarettes. The anti-smoking Nazis used taxes on tobacco to help fill Germany’s depleted coffers

Gangs profit though guns are silent

Article Lester Kiewit - 23 Apr 2020

The lockdown has seen fewer incidents of gang violence in some dangerous Cape Town areas, but the criminal underworld is still hard at work

Alcohol and tobacco: Time for a reality check

Article David Dickinson - 21 Apr 2020

If the government relaxes its total ban, there’s more chance of people modifying their behaviour, for example, not sharing cigarettes or drinking from the same bottle

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