The two biggest cities in SA, Johannesburg and Cape Town, saw a steady flow of customers buying cigarettes and alcohol again after the ban on these products was lifted by government at midnight on Monday, as announced by President Cyril…
Liquor stores throughout South Africa are expecting bottlenecks after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the ban on alcohol sales would be lifted at midnight tonight, for level 2 of lockdown Restaurants and bar owners in Cape Town’s CBD…
The National Treasury has granted a request by the alcohol industry for a deferment of excise tax on liquor. Alcohol industry spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said in a statement on Tuesday that the Treasury had proposed a 90-day suspension for…
South Africans wanting to buy alcohol can do so between 9am and 5pm‚ Monday to Thursday. This was one of the level 3 regulations announced by co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday…
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…
TIMESLIVE Seven men were arrested after being found in possession of several boxes containing counterfeit cigarettes and hair weaves worth almost R1m at Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal, police said. They said they had received intelligence…
The Liquor Traders Association of SA (LTASA) has submitted a detailed plan to government outlining protocols around the sale of alcohol during lockdown. The association‚ which represents 1‚410 liquor stores that employ more than 14‚000…
