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There’s mayhem in store over who gets to define ‘essential’

06 April 2020 - 06:02 By wendy knowler
Wendy Knowler Consumer journalist
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Two shoppers in a Bloemfontein Spar, stocking up for the Covid-19 siege, try to decide if one 18-roll pack of toilet paper will be enough.
Two shoppers in a Bloemfontein Spar, stocking up for the Covid-19 siege, try to decide if one 18-roll pack of toilet paper will be enough.
Image: Sebabatso Mosamo

Who gets to say a hairbrush is a non-essential product? 

Thanks to some vague new legislation, it’s hard to know.

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