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Nkosazana DLAMINI ZUMA (Credit Image: © Panoramic/ZUMAPRESS.com)

Essential items list expanded during Level 4 lockdown

Certain products will once agains be available in-store and online during Level 4 lockdown, but many products remain temporarily prohibited.

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Nkosazana DLAMINI ZUMA (Credit Image: © Panoramic/ZUMAPRESS.com)

During a briefing by the `National Command Council (NCC), Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that a wider variety of products would be available for purchase during Level 4 lockdown.

With more people returning to work and the essential needs of locked-down South Africans changing as a result, she said that there was a need to expand the availability of certain goods and services.

What can you get your hands on?

The following goods have been added to the list of essential items:

  • Computer and technology products;
  • Shop-bought nail and pedicure treatments and hair products;
  • Winter clothing, blankets and heaters;
  • Hardware products;
  • Restaurant take-away services are now permitted;
  • Stationary and educational books;
  • Car sales gradually opened;
  • More items are set to be announced and this list will be updated.

Counselling and Gender-Based Violence services are permitted to resume, as well as postal and courier services. Maintenance services like plumbers, vehicle repair and electricians are also permitted to go back to work.

E-commerce will be incrementally increased, with a wider range of goods set to become available online for home delivery.

Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel said that more items may be added to the list, with various portfolio ministers still in discussion over certain goods.

Cigarettes and booze still banned

Dlamini-Zuma announced that cigarettes and alcohol would remain banned during the Level 4 period, having previously announced that smokers could get their hands on a pack for the first time in over a month.

This is a developing story