The government is going to turn up the heat on dealers who sell unsafe paraffin stoves. This was the message from Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies at an event in Johannesburg at which safe paraffin stoves were handed out in exchange for stoves that fail to comply with safety standards."The next phase for dealers [in illegal appliances] must involve prosecution and not just confiscation," Davies said.The event was part of a government campaign to eradicate paraffin stoves that lack a safety switch that cuts off the paraffin supply when the stove is not upright.Fallen stoves are known to have caused many fires in which lives have been lost and entire communities rendered homeless.Compliant stoves cost R100 and illegal devices about R80.The acting general manager of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications, Rhoda Mbulwane, said non-compliant illegal stoves were smuggled into South Africa.She said that although her organisation had inspectors at ports of entry to confiscate illegal stoves, they were difficult to detect because they were smuggled in component form...