The EFF has opposed the mooted lifting of the ban on alcohol sales when the country moves to level three of the Covid-19 lockdown next month.
“The intention to permit the sale of alcohol will only worsen the situation because even when there is no effort to contain a pandemic, alcohol has been responsible for many health-related and social ills in society,” said EFF spokesperson Vuyani Pambo.
Guaranteed social distancing spaces, including assembly points and retail food spaces where human contact will be prevented;A well-coordinated system of sanitisation and supply of key essentials which must be administered by the department of health;Guaranteed sanitation, emphatically clean toilets for all schools, including those that did not have toilets before the advent of Covid-19;Technology which will lessen the time pupils spend in physical schools and integrated into the technological...
The party added that it was also opposed to the gradual reopening of the economy which they believe only serves the interests of big business.
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