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Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is now a minister in the presidency responsible for youth, women and people with disabilities. (Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Paddy Harper: Will the Covid-19 cigarette ban come back to burn the ANC?

Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Cheaper, untaxed cigarettes are disproportionately used by lower-income smokers, people with less formal education and heavier smokers — groups more vulnerable to both economic strain and health risks.
ALCOHOL BAN

Trail of Covid cases on trial in the courts

Since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster in March, the government’s lockdown regulations have been the subject of public scrutiny and ire

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
More equal: One can’t say much about the army lahnees’ ability to follow Covid-19 rules: distancing, masks and smoking . (newzroom afrika)
ANDREW MLANGENI

Some are more equal than others

It’s do what we say, not what we do, as the ANC lays Andrew Mlangeni to rest

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Limits: A police officer confronts a man pleading for the release of a protester detained for breaching lockdown regulations during a demonstration in Snake Park, Soweto, against electricity cuts. (Marco Longari/AFP)
BHEKI CELE

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

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

  • Casper Lӧtter
8 min read
New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly products.
CIGARETTE BAN

Cigarette sales ban battle looms

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

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
3 min read
Tobacco products have been banned since Cyril Ramaphosa announced the nationwide lockdown. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ALEX CAREY

Profit vs pandemic: British American Tobacco’s Covid-19 stunt

The tyranny of the markets is evident, with the cigarette company exemplifying this through its bid to weaken the government’s measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus

  • Mukovhe Morris Masutha
7 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Eusebius McKaiser: A few critics are smoking some strong stuff

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

  • Eusebius McKaiser
7 min read