What it's like buying illicit cigarettes, liquor during lockdown

Seretse Letswalo* takes a journey into the heart of SA’s contraband liquor and cigarette market

24 May 2020 - 00:00 By Seretse Letswalo

My neighbour takes a long, hard prison drag of the gwaai , blows out some smoke and says, “These things are trash.” ..

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