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TimesLIVE reports that the wine industry’s court application against government’s 14-day lockdown level 4 booze ban has been postponed again.
The case was due to be heard in the Western Cape high court on Wednesday after it was postponed on 2 July. However, there are no judges available to hear the urgent interim interdict application. Vinpro, which is leading the case, launched an urgent application on 29 June, when the latest liquor ban came into force. The organisation represents about 2,600 wine and grape producers. Vinpro’s legal team has approached the judge president on an urgent basis to arrange for the hearing of the interim interdict application before a new judge on a date to be arranged. “We are extremely disappointed by this turn of events and are in urgent consultation with our legal team on the way forward,” said Vinpro’s Rico Basson. In its court application, the non-profit organisation said it wanted the ban lifted on transportation of liquor and off-site consumption in the Western Cape only. It indicated it was not challenging the ban on on-site consumption in bars, taverns and shebeens anywhere in the country, including the Western Cape. It noted that after a court ruling overturned the tobacco ban last year, the liquor industry was the only consumer product targeted by government bans as part of the fight against Covid-19.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nivashni Nair at TimesLIVE
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