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Western Cape premier Alan Winde is calling for a decrease in the curfew hours and a reopening of alcohol sales at bars, restaurants and off-sale stores.Image: Twitter/Alan Winde
ALCOHOL SALES

Allow alcohol sales 4 days a week from outlets, use curfew for on-site sales, urges Winde

Western Cape premier Alan Winde is offering suggestions how to allow a controlled reopening of the economy under Covid-19 regulations, including a limited resumption of the sale of alcohol. Winde has previously come under fire from the…

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Alcohol associations in SA said the country’s wine industry ‘faces a grim picture of business closures, job losses, downward price pressure and structural damage to subsectors’.Image: 123RF/rostislavsedlacek
BOOZE BAN

SA’s booze industry seeks tax relief after new sales ban

SA’s alcohol industry, reeling under a renewed liquor sales and distribution ban since the end of December, on Tuesday called for a deferment of excise duty to stave off a wave of business closures and job losses. President Cyril…

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Alcohol distributors want review of medical report that advised booze ban

Alcohol distributors, together with other businesses affected by SA’s booze ban, want the Medical Research Council (SAMRC) report which supported the ban reviewed. The distributors, under the banner of the Alcohol Coalition, have started…

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