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Headline grabbing tobacco trader Adriano Mazzotti has been in the news lately, accused of being the force behind the current tobacco ban. He tells Checkpoint he's is not a cigarette smuggler and that in fact the ban is actually killing his business. CourtesyJOHANNESBURG - Headline-grabbing tobacco trader Adriano Mazzotti has been in the news lately, accused of being the force behind the current tobacco ban.
Mazzotti says he is not a cigarette smuggler and that in fact the ban is actually killing his business.Mazzotti is a larger than life figure in the South African current affairs and political landscape and he’s no stranger to controversy He was described by author Jacques Pauw as a politically connected “self-confessed” cigarette smuggler in the bestselling 2017 bookMazzotti’s notoriety would however reach a fever pitch during South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown when he was blamed for government’s controversial decision to impose a ban on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco.Pauw claimed in his book that Mazzotti gave Dlamini-Zuma election paraphernalia for 2017 ANC election campaign.
Mazzotti says that isn’t the true story and is adamant he only put Dlamini-Zuma’s campaign in touch with a T-shirt company that could offer them a more reasonable price.that there was no evidence of further links between them and added he did not believe the Minister was “in bed with Mazzotti or tobacco”.
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