JOHANNESBURG - The Beer Association of South Africa on Wednesday urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to lift a renewed ban on alcohol, saying small craft brewers would not survive if it was extended beyond mid January.
On Wednesday BASA, which comprises the Craft Brewers Association, Heineken South Africa and South African Breweries, said it was aware of the severity of the health crisis and supported all efforts to curb the coronavirus infection rate, but stressed the need to work together “to save both lives and livelihoods in this fight”.
“To make things worse, these craft brewers are the very same people who stepped up during the hard lockdown last year by producing soup and stew in their brew houses from donated vegetables to feed over two million hungry people, while also manufacturing sanitiser to help fight Covid-19. ” “We need to fight Covid-19 without starting other fires – you don’t bring a snake into your home because you have a problem with rats,” Tshabangu said in comments incorporated in the BASA statement.
busrep For everyone's health and safety, strictly enforce laws against public drinking! No one's getting hurt sipping wine in their own home!
busrep a ban on alcohol will definitely destroy livelihoods. Starvation will kill more people than corona
busrep The third ban is devastating to craft brewers, who are small businesses owners who work within small margins, always putting the welfare of their staff before their own. It is now no longer a question of keeping businesses open but will they have any food to eat this month,
busrep I wonder how they came to the conclusion that alcohol ban was a sure way to stop the spread,the illegal markets are thriving, and we are losing a lot of tax revenue we could get from legal alcohol sales
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llpot busrep Very Funny since not a single piece of real evidence has been produced to support this claim by government , I would use these new ruling as a precedent , and when I get to court , well just make sh1t up that supports your case , not like a ANC judge can now demand proof
busrep People are making their own since the industry capitulated to government :