EFF rejects calls to lift ban on alcohol sales during Covid-19 lockdown The EFF has rejected calls for the ban on alcohol sales during the Covid-19 lockdown to be lifted, saying that it would lead to a spike in violent crime.
Cape Town - The EFF has rejected calls for the ban on alcohol sales during the Covid-19 lockdown to be lifted.
"It is a call not based on scientific rationale, as there is nothing essential about alcohol and it will only serve a destructive purpose at a time when we all need to practice maximum discipline and self-control," the party said on Saturday. In the first week of the lockdown, the murder rate dropped to 94 from 326 during the same period the previous year, reported rapes were down to 101 from 699 for the same period and cases of assault with intent to do grievous bodily hard decreased from 2 673 to 456.
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