Reprinted from Citizen.co.za, by Oratile Mashile -2024-10-03
In the spirit of World No Alcohol Day, observed on 2 October, the Eastern Cape Liquor Board warned Liquor traders against hosting pens-down parties.
Reprinted from Times Live, by Sinesipho Schreiber – 2023-07-25
Limpopo liquor traders have vowed to take the provincial government to court over the new regulation restricting alcohol sales after midnight.
Limpopo MEC for economic development, environment and tourism Rodgers Monama announced the provincial government would from August 1 implement a law restricting the sale of alcohol after midnight.
Consumers of alcohol and tobacco products will pay 8% more in excise duties.
South Africans have been spared increases on their direct taxes, but they will have to fork out more money for alcohol and tobacco products.
Loss of alcohol sales on weekends has “enormous and far-reaching implications”, according to Pick n Pay co-chair Gareth Ackerman in an opinion piece for Business Day.
On the anniversary of the beginnings of the South African wine industry, Christian Eedes reflects on the alcohol ban, past challenges the wine industry has faced, and the need for the entire alcohol industry to pull together to help overcome the serious social problem South Africa has with alcohol.
Alcohol associations in SA said the country’s wine industry ‘faces a grim picture of business closures, job losses, downward price pressure and structural damage to subsectors’.
Reprinted from Fin24, by Penelope Mashego – 2021-01-12
South Africa’s alcohol industry has asked for another deferment of its excise tax payment until the latest sales alcohol ban is lifted.
