ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte has launched a scathing attack on the tobacco industry.
This while defending minister of co-operative governance and traditional affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The move by Duarte comes amid reports that Dlamini-Zuma was mobilising her Covid-19 national command council colleagues to throw their weight behind a continued ban on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol until level one of the lockdown.
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