Cyril Ramaphosa’s failed crackdown: 92.4% of vendors in South Africa’s informal sector sell illicit cigarettes for as low as R7 per packet

Cyril Ramaphosa’s failed crackdown: 92.4% of vendors in South Africa’s informal sector sell illicit cigarettes for as low as R7 per packet

President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to disrupt the illicit economy, but the availability of illicit cigarettes across South Africa shows that this was another empty promise.

 

[ISP cash cow]

President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to disrupt the illicit economy, but the availability of illicit cigarettes across South Africa shows that this was another empty promise.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Tits on a chcken old Cyril and his clan of crappy comrades...

 

[dualmeister]

 

[Bad Ballie]

Due to overtaxation, people actively support the illicit trade, Cyril will never stop it no matter what the government does.

 

[justplain]

No intention to stop it.
Someone is making too much moola.
It is this way by design.

 

[lexity]

Cigarettes selling for as low as R7 per packet....

How awful that smokers can now support other SAn businesses with the money they save.

/s