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Article highlights:
- The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein has confirmed a lower court’s ruling that government was wrong to ban the sale of cigarettes at the start of the nationwide “hard” lockdown in March 2020.
- There was no scientific justification for the continued ban on the sale of tobacco products.
- Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, appealed a previous ruling of the Western Cape High Court, which found the ban was unnecessary and unconstitutional.
