The brewer says the loss of R285 billion in revenue would be larger than the R229.7bn budget allocated for the health sector for 2020. Day43OfLockDown lockdown BoozeBan
Johannesburg - The government is facing a fresh headache from the country's biggest brewer, South African Breweries , which wants it to allow alcohol sales during Level 4 of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Hellen Ndlovu, SAB's director of regulatory and public policy, said they are in talks and they hope the talks will yield positive results. “Also, South Africa has a fully functional illicit alcohol market which is ready to capitalise on any ban implemented. Apart from the imminent negative impact on the market, a ban on sales would have a severe impact on our business as well,” Ndlovu said.
“The longer we are unable to operate, the bigger the ripple effect. Our products are purchased by a staggering 34 000 wholesalers and retailers, of which the vast majority are SMMEs. We estimate that these wholesalers and retailers support at least 250 000 jobs on their own, many of these being part-time, short term or temporary workers,” Ndlovu said.
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