Social unrest, looting and damage has dealt a further body blow to liquor traders Following the damage done by riots, looting and arson in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng last week, Pick n Pay Group CEO Pieter Boone has appealed to the…
Sales at some liquor stores were off to a slow start on the first day of trading since the ban was lifted on Monday night. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced just after 8pm that the ban on the sale of alcohol would be lifted from Tuesday…
A Pretoria-based restaurateur is livid that police have refused to release R112,000 worth of alcohol that was seized from his establishment last week. TimesLIVE reported how police officers raided Hennie’s Moreleta Restaurant in Pretoria…
This is an opportune time for the government to roll back the prohibition on alcohol sales to limit further losses of jobs and revenue, the liquor sector says. The SA Liquor Brand owners Association (Salba) cited the National Institute…
Thousands of jobs and billions of rand are haemorrhaging from the Western Cape’s economy, premier Alan Winde said on Tuesday as he called for a special president’s co-ordinating council (PCC) meeting on lockdown regulations. Among Winde’s…
A Pretoria-based businessman has threatened to sue the state after police detained his employee for eight hours on Friday night, for serving what he says was a nonalcoholic drink. Werner Pretorius, 36, owner of Hennie’s Moreleta…
A plea for the government to lift the ban on off-consumption alcohol purchases and to provide financial assistance to struggling shopkeepers – shut down three times already as part of Covid restrictions – has been made by the Liquor…
