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Sundays With City Press Prep for the week ahead with City Press insightful coverage of news, politics, business, sport, opinion and entertainment Choose a newsletter Voting Booth On Monday, a student was shot and wounded in Johannesburg during ongoing protests. University students are calling for a national shutdown of all public universities in protest of financial exclusion. However, the SA Police Service (SAPS) said its members had fired shots at the students during Monday s protest in Braamfontein. Last week Mthokozisi Ntumba, who was not part of the protest, was shot dead by police as he left a clinic. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has called on the SAPS to exercise maximum restraint and to stop firing at students, even with rubber bullets.
The sadness of a closed liquor store in Edenvale. Picture: Neil McCartney
It took Pieter Davids (53) 28 years to save up to buy his liquor store, CJ Kelders, in Paarl. He bought it six years ago from Pieter de Witt (74), who still came in to help, until alcohol sales were again abruptly banned on 28 December. Last week the depression became too much for De Witt and he shot himself. Davids himself was shot in his leg during store robbery in June last year during a robbery, but even that was less painful than the devastation that he has had to during the past month. “My store lost a lot.
South Africa’s alcohol industry faces ‘economic abyss’ as alcohol ban continues South Africa’s liquor industry warns that many businesses are on the brink of closure as the alcohol ban in the country continues.
With the third ban now having lasted a month with no date set for its end, liquor associations say many members are now near closure.
The country’s alcohol industry – and associated livelihoods across the supply chain - had already suffered from more than 100 days of alcohol bans in 2020.
In a letter sent to President Ramaphosa today, liquor and tavern associations say the tavern sector is at risk of collapsing and over 250,000 jobs are at risk of dissipating if the ban is not lifted by February 1.
Liquor body asks to meet Ramaphosa over ‘uncaring attitude’ toward booze retailers ‘The president has proven over and over again that his concern is political expediency over the livelihoods of the people of this country and more especially black people.’ Source Monday, 25 January 2021, 15:10 Packers load purchased alcohol into a customer s vehicle on 1 June 2020 in Roodepoort. Photo: Michel Bega
BUSINESS NEWS - The National Liquor Traders Council (NLTC) has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately lift the ban on alcohol sales, over fears of a collapsing tavern sector and massive job loss if there’s no return to trading soon.