The SCA also upheld a cross-appeal by farmers, tobacco processors, manufacturers, retailers and consumers and ordered the minister and the president to pay their costs in the high court. In March 2020, the minister made a series of regulations to contain the spread of Covid-19, including a ban on the sale of tobacco products, e-cigarettes and related products. In June 2020, British American Tobacco, JT International SA and consumers of tobacco products launched a court application seeking an order declaring regulation 45, which banned the sale of tobacco products, unconstitutional and invalid.