I don’t want anybody else to go through this : SA s business cost of COVID-19 SMMEs are not coping with the effects of the pandemic, while fraud and suspicions hovering over temporary relief schemes has not given businesses much faith. Following the strict lockdown regulations currently in place in South Africa, many breweries and micro-brewers are struggling to keep their doors open. Owner of Just Brewing Co. Julian Pienaar had to close a restaurant he co-owned and let some of his staff go, but managed to keep three out of his eight employees, including the chef who now works in his brewery. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey-Makhaza
A tough road to recovery: CT bars, taverns relieved as alcohol sales ban lifted President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night announced alcohol may now be served at licensed premises throughout the week, while sales for off-site consumption are allowed from Mondays to Thursdays. FILE: Government had imposed the latest ban from 29 December to help keep hospital beds free of alcohol-related trauma cases. Picture: 123rf.com
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CAPE TOWN - Bars and tavern owners in Cape Town are relieved the alcohol sales ban has been lifted, but still face a long road to financial recovery.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night announced alcohol may now be served at licensed premises throughout the week, while sales for off-site consumption are allowed from Mondays to Thursdays.
Several businesses that Eyewitness News spoke to said that they had struggled to settle their bills and maintain jobs since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the third ban on alcohol sales in December last year in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Pictures by Michele Spatari and Luca Sola. Video by Antoine Demaison and Catherine Schenck This place is definitely not what it used to be, said Eben Uys, gently wiping the dust from the counter of his bar.
Like more than 200 South African microbrewery and restaurant owners, Uys is fighting to keep his business afloat after a new ban on alcohol sales to combat the soaring numbers of coronavirus cases.
But like some others he has managed to adapt to survive.
The 36-year-old chemistry graduate runs trendy bar and restaurant Mad Giant Brewery in the smart district of Newtown, in the heart of South Africa s economic capital of Johannesburg.
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