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The Citizen reports that SA Breweries (SAB) announced on Wednesday it would be pursuing urgent legal action in a bid to challenge the government’s fourth ban of alcohol sales for on-site and off-site consumption.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday placed the country under lockdown Level 4 for two weeks due to the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. SAB said it was challenging a new prohibition on booze sales in order to protect jobs and livelihoods in the alcohol sector. According to the brewer, there was no scientific link showing that the consumption of alcohol raised the risk of contracting Covid-19, especially if alcohol was consumed safely and responsibly by citizens in their own homes. The brewer said it was also deeply concerned by the continued discrimination against the legal alcohol trade, which had the result of a burgeoning illicit industry in the country. This will not be the first time SAB has taken the government to court over the ban on alcohol sales. In January when the country was battling the second wave of the pandemic, the company approached the courts to rule on the constitutionality of the then ban. SAB said on Wednesday that the additional legal challenge did not detract from the first application and that that challenge was still in progress. On Tuesday, wine producers’ association Vinpro also launched an urgent court interdict application to lift the blanket ban on wine sales in the Western Cape.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thapelo Lekabe at The Citizen
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