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DRANK DRY: The ban on the sale of alcohol remains in place under the extended Level 4 restrictionsPicture: 123RF/BRENT HOFACKER

Eastern Cape liquor board notes the suspension of liquor sale and warns communities against sale of illicit spirits and home-made beer

Mgwebi Msiya – Eastern Cape Liquor Board The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) has noted the moving of the country to Alert Level 4 with the immediate suspension of the sale of liquor for the next fourteen days. We, therefore, urge all…

President Cyril Ramaphosa

New level 1 restrictions for Easter

From Businesstech President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that government will introduce new restrictions for South Africa ahead of the Easter weekend. In a national address on Tuesday evening (30 March), the president said that the…

BLEAK TIMES: Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane responds to President Cyril Ramaphosa’ announcement of further restrictions that were implemented as from midnight on Thursday

Statement of the Eastern Cape government about the decisions of national government aimed at containing the spread of covid-19 in the province

From the office of the provincial premier The Eastern Cape provincial government welcomes the decisions taken by the national government which were communicated by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday evening. We support additional…

COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES | DA not happy with liquor restrictions and curfews

TimesLIVE ‘So it’s the problem child?’: Mzansi reacts to stricter lockdown in Nelson Mandela Bay Social media was filled with memes and messages reacting to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of stricter lockdown measures in Nelson…

A cashier sits in front of a closed alcohol section in a Johannesburg Pick n Pay on Monday. Image: WALDO SWIEGERS/BLOOMBERG

Liquor stores warn of chaos under proposed level 3 restrictions

The organisation representing owners or operators of more than 1,400 retail and wholesale liquor stores, employing more than 14,000 people, believes the regulations governing the sale of alcohol when level 3 comes into effect are…

John Steenhuisen

Level 4: A copy and paste of Level 5, disastrous for livelihoods

President Ramaphosa’s cabinet seems to be indulging in all its nanny-state fantasies. The DA has slammed government for “smuggling through an extension of the hard lockdown under the guise of easing restrictions” “Ultimately, there is not…

TIME FOR SOME TO WORK: The stringent laws that restrict the movement of private citizens remain, with only a few concessions that will be welcomed by citizens cooped up at home.Picture: AFP

Back to work for 1.5m South Africans as lockdown rules eased

STHEMBILE CELE AND QAANITAH HUNTER Masks on in public and everyone under curfew at night The economy was the biggest winner in the government’s relaxed Covid-19 regulations announced yesterday, as more than 1.5-million workers are…

Brandon Herringer, a City of Cape Town plumber, demonstrates what a water collection point would have looked like if Day Zero had arrived.Image: Anthony Molyneaux

Fear did more than water restrictions to defeat Day Zero

Fearmongering did more to stave off Cape Town’s Day Zero than water restrictions. This is one of the main findings of a study by researchers from Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town published in the journal Water…