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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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