The announcement by the country’s two biggest brewers that they will cancel R11bn in capital expenditure should come as no surprise to the government which, despite mounting evidence of the economically destructive impact of the liquor ban, continues to outlaw the sale of alcohol.
The government is showing no sign of sensible compromise as it battles Covid-19. Its wholesale ban is based on the premise that it frees up much needed critical care facilities in public hospitals, which had an increase in admissions when government permitted the sale of alcohol after the five-week hard lockdown...
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