Petition to stop cigarette ban draws huge support
(World News South Africa)

Durban - It was a huge surprise for a former Ballito resident that the petition she started, asking President Cyril Ramaphosa to overturn the ban on the sale of cigarettes during the lockdown had received more than 540 000 signatures. “I did not think I would get this many. I thought I might get 20 000,” said Bev Maclean, who started the petition on wwww.change.org. Maclean, who now lives in Joburg, said the number of signatures received showed how many South Africans felt about the ban. As...