Later today, finance minister Tito Mboweni will announce the 2021/2022 budget and pundits are speculating on what the minister will do to rebalance the books. The cost of the global pandemic has hit every country hard but the developing…
“It was like Christmas!” said Eric Matondo, manager of Harley’s Liquor in Cape Town, the morning after a spike in booze sales on Tuesday afternoon. “People were buying box wine, champagne, spirits, beers, cider, everything. I had to send…
The SA Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has released its model, used to justify the new alcohol ban, which projects that an eight-week ban would lead to an 18% reduction in trauma patients in hospitals and free up resources for Covid-19…
As calls for a new booze ban grow in the Eastern Cape, house parties and other booze-related lockdown breaches may be the thing of the past. This after the provincial government and the liquor industry agreed to set up a tip-off line for…
There have not been any calls to reinstate the ban on alcohol sales, the presidency said on Monday afternoon. This comes as a number of voicenotes were circulating on Monday claiming that the government was going to reinstate the ban on…
Monday’s lifting of the lockdown booze ban was like heaven on earth for retailers and bottle store traders with tipplers pushing sales to Black Friday and New Year’s Eve levels. While none was prepared to give actual figures yet, spirits,…
“Sivulele singene (let us in). Sangena sangena (we are entering)‚” sang joyful South Africans as they made their way through entrances at liquor stores. From Monday‚ licensed liquor outlets across the country opened their doors for the…
Several liquor traders’ associations have teamed up to plead with the government to allow taverns and shebeens to operate during lockdown level 3. The associations, which reportedly represent about 50,000 shebeens and taverns, say selling…
The strict ban on the sale of alcohol during the Covid-19 lockdown has proved deadly for some in the Eastern Cape. Nine people in the province have died in the space of a week after drinking lethal moonshine, reports DispatchLIVE. Three…
Minister reveals that 230,000 people have been charged for lockdown breaches Smokers caught with cigarettes outside their homes will be forced to produce till slips. That’s according to police minister Bheki Cele, who on Friday was…
Alcohol and cigarettes would not be allowed under level 4 restrictions, the government said on Wednesday night. “Alcohol is not allowed yet on level 4,” said Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. On top of this, for “health reasons”,…
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday announced that the government had adopted a phased approach to lifting the hard lockdown and easing its rules which were implemented in March. This will allow some businesses to operate and prevent…
While the coronavirus lockdown has seen significantly fewer crimes committed, police minister Bheki Cele said it was concerning that men were among the fatal victims of domestic abuse. Cele said at a briefing in Durban on Tuesday that men…
After the announcement that the sale of alcohol would be prohibited during the 21-day lockdown‚ South Africans queued outside bottle stores to stock up before the end of the day on Thursday March 26 2020. ‘The name of the game was to buy…
“For 21 days‚ please stay sober.” This was the message from police minister Bheki Cele on Wednesday‚ as he unpacked how the women and men in blue will enforce order when the national lockdown kicks in at midnight on Thursday. Cele…
