“I must also put it on record: I am not Mazzotti’s friend. And secondly, if someone is doing crime in SA, they must be arrested,” said Dlamini-Zuma.
Her links to Mazzotti have since been used to criticise her stance against the sale of tobacco during the lockdown period.
“Whatever crime, whether they are [doing crime] on cigarettes ... those people who are doing crime, they must be arrested,” Dlamini-Zuma added. Her statements also come after Mazzotti himself issued a statement saying that he had no relationship with Dlamini-Zuma and that he had not funded her presidential campaign.
Dlamini-Zuma further defended her stance against cigarettes, citing studies which have come out from China, the US and Oxford University. “People who smoke do have problems with lungs, as we know, [and] if they do get the infection, they are more likely than the non-smokers to get a more serious disease,” said Dlamini-Zuma.Dlamini-Zuma also cited benefits of smoking cessation by the World Health Organisation to back up her argument.
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