Jabulani Tembe, farmer at Laluhle farm in Kosi Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, and secretary of the Black Farmers Tobacco Association (BFTA), says that it is not easy to become a tobacco farmer ...
“This illegal trade is taking food from our mouths and killing our businesses.” These are the words of Zachariah Motsumi, spokesperson for the South African Tobacco Transformation Alliance, who blames ...
The South African Tobacco Transformation Alliance (SATTA) is the latest to rubbish government’s hasty loan of approximately R70 billion in emergency support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Early this ...
Despite the SANDF busting more cigarette smugglers near the Zimbabwean border, government continues to defend its cigarette lockdown sales ban – a move that is not only infuriating smokers, but ...