Johannesburg, Jan 16 : The Restaurants Association of South Africa (RASA) said that it was taking government to court over the alcohol sale ban imposed in December 2020.
RASA CEO Wendy Alberts believed that restaurants were badly affected by the alcohol ban.
“The restaurants ate decimated,” Alberts told Xinhua on Friday, “Take a walk at any restaurants road and you will see it’s a ghost town. We are not even be in a viable position to pay our bills,” he added.
Trauma units in South African hospitals often battle with huge numbers of alcohol-related injuries especially during holidays.
The aim of the liquor sale ban was to curb such hospital admissions while allowing medical workers to focus instead on Covid-19 patients.
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