‘WE WILL FIGHT BAN’
Jul 19, 2020
4 minutes
MANDISA NYATHI and QUEENIN MASUABI news@citypress.co.za
Disgruntled alcohol manufacturers and restaurateurs will not take government’s U-turn lying down. They are concerned about the retrenchments that will follow after the renewed ban on the sale of alcohol came into effect last week. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced last Sunday that the decision to ban the sale and distribution of alcohol was informed by the shortage of hospital beds to accommodate the rising number of Covid-19 infections.
Ramaphosa said trauma cases in hospitals had increased dramatically since the first alcohol ban was lifted under level 3, leading to a shortage of beds for virus
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