Pretoria – The Tax Justice SA campaign has called for an urgent investigation into smuggling at South Africa’s “porous borders”, in a bid to stop the flow of contraband, particularly illicit cigarettes, bleeding the economy of millions or rand every day through tax evasion.
“Illicit cigarettes have been flooding over our borders since criminals took complete control of the tobacco market during the lockdown sales ban,” said Abramjee. “The alleged involvement of a Sars officer is a sinister development, and a full and thorough investigation must now be conducted to secure our borders.”
Tax Justice SA said the seizure was the latest in a series of busts featuring Remington Gold cigarettes, which are made in Zimbabwe by Gold Leaf, the tobacco giant which also manufactures several local brands in South Africa including RG, Sahawi, Chicago, Voyager and Sharp at its factory in Gauteng.
Abramjee Tshini thixo wam. You can’t just tell people gore, that’s it...no more smokes and booze for you. Simple case study...bootlegging in the US. It gave gangsters godlike powers and we know that government officials benefitted from it. “Never waste a good crises” what’s happening here
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Abramjee Who would have thought...
Abramjee and who must we thank for this....... let's see if we can guess......
Abramjee huh the illegal trade of tobacco has been going on long before lockdownsa......, even i know that!!!
Abramjee NDZ gave the tobacco industry and all the tax revenue to them freely
Abramjee We knew this would happen. Planned?
Hmmm. Is anyone surprised?
Oh no, if only someone predicted this and said it was going to happen and warned .... oh, I mean literally EVERYONE except for the corrupt kopdoek Zuma who was connected to benefit from the illegal cigarette sales. VoetsekANC VoetsekRamaphosa VoetsekKopdoek
All thanks to The Kopdoek.