what to do with all our waste. can be different by choosing smaller solutions for steam city dollars. good morning to implement a series of legal. to do. this news africa coming up on the program today the tobacco ban that's gone up in smoke for the 1st time in nearly 6 months cigarette sales are 6 allowed again in south africa but what was the objective off the bat and did it do any more than light up sales in the black markets. and how the pandemic has inspired creative solutions and political will to get clean water to residents in nairobi biggest informal settlements.

in east africa it's good to have your company sales of tobacco and the whole products have resumed in south africa as the government eases the country's restrictions cigarette sales in particular had been bad to start off south africa's in march the bad was controversial from the beginning supported by public health groups and criticized by the industry and the public but now that the ban has been lifted what did the government achieve. in a moment i'll be asking that to my guest but 1st or day to day there were queues outside liquor stores in south africa drinkers and smokers were keen to stock up a reporter sent us this report. a bit of the sale of cigarettes had devastating impacts on businesses in the industry. likely one of her family has been selling

tobacco products in cape town for 35 years now she had to close one of her shops and only remains with this one here locked down was horrific and it is her think you can move even if the recoup your losses these notions what say that because anything that you prohibit people will work around it as as they have you personally as a smoker i am i'm i'm happy i'm here because there was a lot of it was not going there was a lot of you know you go 'd. you get this going at all brands are going to win will be for the sale of cigarettes has been booming on the black markets many brands were widely available and studies suggest that only very few people in fact really quit smoking. there's no doubt that smoking is bad for your health and the government argued that it's more likely for you to end up in an intensive care unit as a smoker if you get 90 and the government also claim that there's

a common practice of people passing on their cigarettes to each other which could possibly spread the virus but many smokers are angry have the government's decision that's 7 i feel like everybody's going to die anyway so why do they keep in the smokes some are we going to die sometime we don't eat joyce. is this christ. was able to one little one is spread all over the well was. just destroyed some in government will also be relieved that the restrictions for smokers are lifted because it had a major impact on the finances of the governments if there's only illegal trades there are no taxes on the south african revenue service already predicted a shortfall of 15000000000 euros this year because of business closures and job losses so too the question we. hosking on this was the ban on the sale of

cigarettes effective it's what i'm going to put to dr katherine ed page she is a specialist scientist for tobacco and other products welcome to day demi's africa . let's maybe struggle for that with an outline of what what was the government trying to achieve in the banning of the sale of cigarettes was it to stop people smoking. thanks christine and i think the government was trying to protect the citizens because that because we know if he has a book lucia no. illusion of one of the citizens because. of. the serious substance use as well as. some of these things already known risk cruxes 19 so this is the country has a very disadvantageous position which it does look quite busy so. we're to rest once the government's got to do something to put an extra leo that

section you know for us not to see what we've seen in other countries and so our right i mean. everything that you've mentioned you know the diabetes and the age hiv and tuberculosis if they are that's not gone away the band's now been lifted cigarettes and alcohol are now being sold so what are we to make of that has the band been effective is has the government been forced to lift the ban because it's ineffective. no the government does not refer us to remember graham because the senate we know that. a lot of people asked what's. called into the reach about between it's one but i'm. going to plant don't don't get locked down so i believe that has never been seen. or. also. struck you know. i get that you're sort of you're you're you're you're pro at this

this this this bad at how effective it's been and the message from the university of cape town for example they conducted a study they came to the conclusion that the ban was ineffective that people smokers in this era to reduce the amount they smoked in fact they they point out that people perhaps even smoke more and smoke things that were not regulated which which in itself poses some kind of a health risk what do you have to say to that then. if you think i'd like to say that it depends on how you look at you don't you know that you know that i am on the ban was not to stop this. behavior smoking but the still smoking so if you have spoke you will be allowed to smoke a cigarette you should not miss you smoking at the same rate as you were smoking so the lockdown even though reaps lucky to study from u.c. says that those who are still smoking will smoke yes so you should not go smoke at

this moment in less and less of them you can also if you look at it from that perspective of trying to protect as many people as possible trying to get as many people as possible of cigarettes you will see that one has been effective you want with the evidence provided by the u.c. system and just say that i know that you know beyond the pandemic as a year you're obviously advocating for more regulation and within south africa's to tobacco industry but i actually wanted to put this to you and i saw that in a in a in a report in may the devil you h o say that over 80 percent off the back are uses live in low and middle income countries that's pretty much at africa as a whole continent what can we make off that the fact that people from from from our part of the world i'm more likely to smoke then involve countries. east africa we heard one of the west's smoking privileges as a consonant and because all that talk about what he does she looks at us as it would take stock markets would replace. the dying markets and europe latin america

so we all know who hates when cold when you when you look at. markets who are manufacturers because they see us as people like us or tell us you know markets or markets more resources being pumped into advertising that's that's ridiculous recruit small people to become smokers so the emmys will get well after . that creates a problem for us as a consequence as well as dr catherine eg they thank you so much for that analysis from pretoria and hear. an excerpt of what is in kenya where the pandemic has seen people come up with innovative ways to supply clean water to people living in informal settlements our correspondent visited keep it up in the capital nairobi that's a place where most residents don't have private toilets or running water but things

are improving since the pandemic to get. the car washed when it's shallow water on one of the women at this public bathroom charge 5 shillings or 5 euro cents for visit to the toilet and $0.10 for a shower. willing to bare nairobi's not just informal settlements and very few people here have their own tap water much less a private child toilet. sharing a bathroom with hundreds of people is already a problem in normal times but during the pandemic it's even more of a health risk. than since corona started business has not changed because here people don't have a bathroom they don't have space for bathrooms and toilets we were very scared when one person went to the toilet the next person didn't want to go in so you had poured a lot of water and then went into the toilet. in nairobi as informal settlements providing clean water is big business anyone who has

a connection sells that water on average residence told us they spend about 2 years 50 a week on water. doesn't you know that sometimes we have no water here for people to wash their hands sometimes we have water so i put it out for them before corona you needed about 5 or 6 containers of water but now you need around 10 because you always have to wash your hands and when other people come by they have to wash their hands to. the price of water however is not the only thing residents have to tackle. the pipes contaminated ground water and the disposal of waste and sewage a major problem. at this river water pipes flowing into keep there and raw sewage running side by side but since the start of the corona pandemic the government has been trying to catch up to improve the infrastructure here absent all that has been the work of local n.g.o.s and private water suppliers who been trying to fill this gap. when local n.g.o.s can to change things

a shuffle which has become keep there is biggest water supply through rigorous filtration system they clean groundwater and supply residents with water stored far away from the sewers and distributed through aerial pipes that water has been such a pride to be so clean it's fit for drinking. water. previously we were receiving you know cleaning more cases of. the users that is or maybe. drinking dirty water. so sure now came up with the idea of supplying want of a plane system is to reduce or to drink will we get one diseases because one sort of has its in drink just like isn't suited straight to be contaminated. since the start of the pandemic shuffle really became a visible presence installing hand washing stations and providing us water free of charge. the government also stepped up its game according to nairobi water and

sewage company it's built boreholes and now deploys free water trucks to informal settlements on a daily basis the question is why it took a pandemic to make these changes. the government into was up to its informal settlements. going to move the train but instead they kept on increasing. the policy change that we have to see all the other flaws is. up to now kibera hasn't seen a spike in chronic cases but even if the government is serious about improving its services it still has a long way to go 1st so now before we go a little known babble scientists feared had vanished on the face of the earth has been rediscovered in africa after 50 years it's called it so molly elephant shrew not because of its size its actually as small as a mouse but like an elephant it has a trunk if you look closely now researchers found that during

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