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Restricting tobacco causes crime
It has cost the fiscus potential billions in lost tax revenue, as well as enabling criminal syndicates to flourish.
2 December 2025
It has cost the fiscus potential billions in lost tax revenue, as well as enabling criminal syndicates to flourish.
The stated aim of the Tobacco Bill is to reduce smoking. Yet its mechanisms go far beyond health protection.
This process can be called NGO displacement: when NGOs funded by taxpayers start to perform roles that belong to government itself.
The ANC lacks the ideology and policy education to do what is needed to achieve those aims.
Trade wars only result in ludicrously increased tariffs that harm the very nation implementing them, while consumers suffer on all sides of the pond.
If you want to prevent crime, the only surefire way is ensuring that crimes are investigated, and criminals are convicted.
The process to adopt the Tobacco Bill has been fatally flawed.
This means that employers are likely to downsize to stay below the 50-employee threshold, shrinking our economic growth and employment potential.
The ANC is condemning millions of South Africans to poverty for the sake of Cold War theatre.