SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: A nation driven to drink
Actually, given the absurd flip-flopping on policy that's worthy of a Monty Python script, panic-buying of booze is the rational response
12 June 2020 - 06:00
It all began, predictably, with that klaxon of truth, WhatsApp, where voice notes ominously warned of an imminent reinstatement of the ban on the sale of alcohol. Faced with the fresh horror of indefinite sobriety, SA sprang into action. By lunchtime, anxious queues had formed outside bottle stores, where shelves soon started to look decidedly bare.
Then the presidency weighed in. “No such calls have been tabled before the national coronavirus command council at this point,” spokesperson Khusela Diko told TimesLive...
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