But brewers warn that a festive season prohibition will negate any recovery in the sector
The sale and on-site consumption of alcohol is now permitted every day of the week until 10pm, with off-site alcohol sales allowed from Monday to Friday between 10am and 6pm.
“I speak of the owners of restaurants, bars, taverns, hotels, conference venues and others in the hospitality sector that have seen massive decline in their business,” he said. “The [latest] further easing of restrictions will provide some reprieve to those businesses that have survived the four alcohol bans, which forced the industry to shut down for 161 days since March last year putting just over 240 000 jobs at risk,” it said.
On 31 August the association’s officials appeared before parliament’s standing committee on finance seeking excise tax relief for the beer industry. The officials said the sector had already been devastated by four alcohol bans over the past year-and-a-half.
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