She was asked by some members of Parliament about the government's continued ban on the sale of tobacco products during Level 3 of the national lockdown.
She was asked by some members of Parliament about the government's continued ban on the sale of tobacco products during Level 3 of the national lockdown. An MP asked her to justify the move and questioned whether the government was motivated by possible links to the cigarette smuggling underworld in insisting on the ban.
Mazzotti is cigarette trader who has been accused of being part of the criminal underworld that smuggles cigarettes into the country to avoid paying taxes. "I must put it on record, I am not Mazzotti's friend and secondly if anyone is doing crime in South Africa they must be arrested for whatever crime it is... They must be arrested," she told MPs.
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