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South Africa is on its third alcohol ban since the outbreak of Covid-19 last year, following the country’s unprecedented rise in cases and concerns that hospital beds would be filled up by alcohol related trauma cases.
The alcohol industry has bemoaned the bans, calling for off-premises alcohol trading in order to protect livelihoods.
The country’s taverns and shebeens employ 250 000 people out of the 415 000 livelihoods the industry accounts for and 165 000 people have already lost their jobs across the industry
South Africa’s wine producers and liquor traders
have slammed the government’s extension of the ban on the sale of alcohol,