PICS: Capetonians flock to liquor stores after booze ban is lifted
By Mwangi Githahu
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Cape Town - Alcohol buyers from taverns, restaurants and bottle stores across Cape Town’s southern suburbs yesterday braved the hot sun to queue outside wholesale liquor stores to refill their stocks after the president’s Monday night announcement lifting the alcohol ban.
The president said that trading in alcohol could resume under certain restrictions, such as the sale of alcohol for off-site consumption only being permitted from Monday to Thursday, between 10am and 6pm.
Candice Brooks and Chantal Panti were among the buyers at Wynberg’s Ultra Liquor and had driven 30km from Ocean View to Wynberg to fetch stock for their bottle store.
The latest tension over the public broadcaster’s retrenchment process erupted between the board and Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.
In a letter to the SABC board, dated 26 January, the minister presents “recommendations to resolve the impasse on the Section 189 process at the SABC”.
“We reiterate that our intervention in this matter does not intend to overrule the Labour Court judgment on the dispute with unions, but rather to minimise the impact of the retrenchment on affected employees as well as to ensure that the process is undertaken in a fair and transparent manner,” the letter reads.
The board’s response, on 30 January, denies that the difference in opinion with the unions representing SABC workers is an impasse or a dispute, considering the retrenchment process has started.
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