Dlamini-Zuma pushes for tobacco, alcohol ban to continue until Level 1 lockdown

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Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and alcohol should continue to be banned until the country reaches Level 1 of the lockdown.

News24 was reliably told that Dlamini-Zuma was supported by Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi when she told the NCCC this week that she believed it would be too much of a health risk to allow the sale of cigarettes and alcohol on 1 June when the country is expected to go to Level 3 of the nationwide lockdown.

Those who opposed the proposal led by Dlamini-Zuma argued that a pandemic was not the time to make policy decisions, as both the tobacco and alcohol industries were not banned – they were simply regulated. Dlamini-Zuma’s spokesperson Mlungisi Mtshali said he could not comment on matters currently before the NCCC.

More than 8 000 people have made inputs to government calling for the reopening of salons and hairdressers. All retail would also be opened, with some restrictions. It was further agreed that the construction industry would be reopened and that all other supporting jobs would also be allowed.Sources told News24 that there was uncertainty whether the risk-adjusted approach of having different districts in different levels would be effective in the metros around the country.

 

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Fuck no lift the ban

That's the reason why i never thought she will be a good leader ANC

Dlamini-Zuma is going to push us a little bit toooo far!

She's got balls to try and push for that kinda ban in a country that is being dominated by liquor and tobbaco businesses

There is absolutely no ban on cigarettes, it's freely available everywhere in South Africa. You can buy cigarettes at any squatter camp, Pakistan shop, Nigerian shop, Zimbabwean shops in RSA. Little more expensive, but freely available. So why the fuss

She needs to be removed from office she is trying to kill our nation when we need tax money she stops two of the biggest tax bringers shewantstokillsa

The bitterness of loosing Nasrec conference. She is releasing anger to the smokers

Aibo nakhu abantu belingwa

I hope the people of South Africa will open their eyes when voting for a leader again

This sounds like a fight back from the NDZ's Nasrec faction for people to revolt against CR and to delay court cases of her Nasrec's backers

Come level 1 this old broekhoesie will want it banned until level 000000, we are not going to go into level 3 without cigarettes

This mama and her friends are making big money now. She should be in jail,not taking decisions about matters she does not understand. And in the mean time the world is watching our African circus here,we were on BBC news this morning. Shame!

Support the zuptas lol

Until level zero 👏👏👏. Leadership this one

phat63908830 MaDlamini uzozbulalisa ngabantu ke manje.

If you knew how to do maths (and how to count) you would be able to calculate that government is losing R130,000,000 A DAY (one hundred and thirty million rand) in tax and VAT due to DlaminiZuma's ban on tobacco alone. Please explain yourself madam.

It’s payback to Max Hurrell for making that video haha when people zol 😂

These 'regulations' are in violation of EVERY CITIZEN'S rights to human dignity, which are NON-DEROGABLE even under a state of emergency, much less a state of disaster. DlaminiZuma please familiarise yourself with the Bill of Rights. SAHRCommission

And as a country we must give her a full support that she needs.

Did you know lockdown is made for poor people. Political and rich people they get everything they may want 🤔

This woman needs to retire. Start focusing on the real issues like PPE and the hospitals. Up scaling testing. This screening is clearly not effective. Just test people. I’m sure she has enough money now from her corrupt dealings to fund that. She is wasted space.

This Zuma and Motsoaledi are going 2 be problems. Motsoaledi can hardly run his Dept, he wants 2 hold on 2 the Ministry of Health. He must back off or else we'll expose his scandals.

She is too much big for herself

dlaminizumamustfall

CrookInADoek

❤❤❤👌👌👌👌

In the interest of her family’s sales?

Thanks to Nkosazana I no longer smoking and drinking😀

I work in a hospital,the ban on alcohol has decreased the number of trauma patients,before we can even touch u,u have to take the covid test. U might lose your life before the results come out 😑

All you ANC supporters this is what YOU voted for you should be standing PROUD but hey remember these times when voting in future last we voted who would have thought lockdown

Man!! How much does this syndicate want to take from us smokers and the government during the pandemic...and too think that both tobacco and alcohol are freely but expensively available... begs the question.. who gets the cash ?

Stratcom strikes again....

I don't buy this story ...Why do you make this a NDZ thing as if she takes decisions without consultation with other parties

I wonder who has an interest in the cigarette underworld

This is not only about COVID-19 , Politics fought at another level.

Yin uJacob Zuma uyabhema, uyaphuza yin ? Ngoba ngath khona i_EX yakhe alwa nayo logogo

i sopport her for tht

7 million people died in her AIDS tyranny. Bringing us HIV pills that burn the urine to a point of being infections. Compelling us to take HIV pills instead of a vaccine. She got infected with AIDS not through sex but through the burning effect of the AIDS pills. She killed SADC

The granny is dreaming . She does that we go the streets and protests. The state can be ungovernable once !

Ja ne¡ seems like our we have along way Togo

DlaminiZuma We just waiting for the day the Pres addresses the nation on level 3 resume date . Be assured that if the alcohol and cigarettes be not included on level 3 then it will be clear your government doesn't care about the economy. We wil go the streets to remove u!

Just like a breadwinner her word is final🕵️💥😂.

ngwanyana o wa hlanya straight

dlaminizumamustfall

The old bag must go !

That's the nature of debate, people will have different views and she's entitled to her views. What matters are the out comes of the meeting when the regulation is finalized. Stop gossiping.

People are smoking where they get the cigarettes?

Ridiculous. At every level she goes back on her word. 'What she believes' is not scientific and has no regard for the livelihood of people working in those industries. The only beneficiaries are the illegal traders

Can we lock her down until level 1 too?

When iduku got muthi hell and Satan stands on top of it. With make up full of velabahleke people just laugh and not question.

Sy is fok

She's definitely not serving at his behest😂😂😂

Didn't they say older people are at risk and they must stay home.

DlaminiZuma what is happening in your head?

Continue or discontinue we can still buy the issue is that the prices are exorbitant and the country is loosing a lot of revenue

? Chase her away please!!!

She is pushing the ppl to the limit. And gues who wl take the fal? The President amd she wil b laughing on a cal with her ex while CyrilRamaphosa is busy managing the outcry. This is now pushing it too far

Please ANC talk to these granny because you going to loose use during elections

My wishes is to ban 4 ever

If Cyril is nt careful, ths crisis cud b used by his oponents to destroy the litle confidence ppl stil hv on him. CyrilRamaphosa wake up and smel the tea my President plz.

The president of RSA has spoken.....🤷😒

Real leadership🔥👌🏽🇿🇦♥️

Her agenda is to weaken the CR administration. She wishes to see people rebel against CR.

People will spend money on smokes and alcohol and their children will go hungry..🤔 She has a point...🤷🏿‍♂️ Plus when have had a dop and a puff you will likely mingle with a stranger and get friendly...😱

What the hell?!

As much as people should minimise Tabacco and alcohol use, the ban is adding further stress to our people and fiscus. Lift the ban. CyrilRamaphosa DrZweliMkhize

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Good news

And people continue to starve. Where are her priorities? Looking after health as she would like us to believe, as the masses starve to death?

DD pls come out from wherever you are we need ur intervention now pls

Why does this idiotic clown bother with this. She clearly never had any idea in any of the departments she ran down... and now she plays god. If she were able to count or do any type of math she would know how much the government is losing. Get someone to assist her please.

That is why Zuma divorced you is because of your attitude, you was giving him roster for SEX

Lo mama u resign nini Mara sizosala nge peace 🤔🤔

😡😡😡

DlaminiZuma can you please retire

She is playing games now.....she won't get it right.

What is wrong with the woman?

The study of UCT confirms the ban did not work, for 90% if did not read it incorrectly. Whoms interest is she pushing? As everyone is losing via tax money. By all appearances the only ones gaining is illicit traders and associates

Yes, that should continue and churches and places of worship should open pronto LockdownLevel3 LockdownSA

😂 😂 😂 😂 We are in for a ride! Give them cake, she said... Maybe the revolt will start...

There is no place in any government or any society across the globe for fascist c*nts such as this old hag. She needs to go.

Entlek who's in charge here. Ramaphosa or ndlamini zuma

She’s high on Zol level1

That's why she lost in Nasrec

Clearly her son is making BIG bucks!!!!!!!

Thank u future president. Cigarettes will increase Coronavirus cases.

DR. Dlamini-Zuma

Access to a public healthcare is an entreched constitutional right, but tobacco and alcohols are not, and consuming them bears nothing good. Instead, under the influence of alcohol, most of consumers do all sorts of bad things that will worsen Covid-19 transmission. BAN THEM!

We'll remember you ANC and what you're doing to us law abiding citizens !

Go jump in the ocean

She has an open revenue stream to her bank account on the poison she and her family are bootlegging

O Bosso Wena. Bosso Ke Mang?

Let me fix your headline: Media calling for Dlamini-Zuma 's head since her argument is based on science.

Isn’t she a board member of some cigarette company, asking gor a friend.

This woman is sizing you up, CR.

Please tell yourself and your son to hold on with the sigatette ban till level 1 because your son has also a big tabaco com and some of you was about 2 weeks ago in the news for illegle sigarettes. It is my body my longs and hart not yours so I smoke I dont need to ask you

Lol she is proving a point ul be strong

Please Mommy do it

So, reading the article, it seems like everything is being relaxed, hairdressing air travel, manufacturers. Everything EXCEPT cigarettes and alcohol!!!! THIS IS NOT RIGHT. Smokers are being targeted in this spiteful campaign leg by a twisted individual DlaminiZuma alanwinde

I think now you are out of order😡😡😡😡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There was an “agreement that government would lift the restrictions on the sale of tobacco under Level 3”. Now the wicked witch is once again telling people what’s best for them. Insufferable woman!!! PresidencyZA alanwinde jsteenhuisen enough is enough!!!!

goodbye to the wine and tobacco industries and poor families loosing their livelihood, believe she has allocated funds to support those people or alternative employment or businesses for them sy weet duidelik fokkol van ekonomie af en gee ook nie om nie

It can't be ! No dictatorship in a democracy.

If the peer to peer review on Nicotine being beneficial to smokers response to Covid19 is proven correct this is going to be a(nother) severe embarrassment to the government. 2cWorth

Uyanya lo gogo

Do not we need strong economy to fight and defeat pandemics; does she fully comprehend what economy entails on the lives of the people or she is just obsessed with her medical profession or maybe driving RETagendathat sought to destroy CR admin

Death will come for this old hag DlaminiZuma and very soon

tobacco and alcohol industries were not banned – they were simply regulated!!!!!!!!

TinyikoZet Angahi babeli hina

I drink and i smoke, and I support the ban until level one. I mean people can leave without tobacco and alcohol. I'm so proud of ma dlamini zuma

She will push this because she knows that Mazzoti is benefiting in illegal cigarettes

Making too much money is she?

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Cause she will the Zumas rule the undergroud and illegal sales of cigarettes and alcohol

She won’t win that argument this time around SARS and NT will be worse off without those two revenue streams.

I am not her baby. Enough now...

Efward zuma and mazotti and her is making too much money from illicit cigarettes thats why she wants to keep the ban going, no other reason

Somebody need to give this gogo a dick Rubbish

That’s it. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I’M NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT ANY LONGER. alanwinde jsteenhuisen CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA DlaminiZuma

We have listen to this lady for too long.

SA is terrorised by an old bi**h... why don you give her a ventilator and sent her home!

Gogo doesn't play....

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