Ban on alcohol and cigarettes in South Africa

[Daz_A3]

Just as easy to find booze. There's even price lists doing the rounds.

I just bought 5l of cask strength brandy...

So how does one get onto these mailing lists... asking for a friend

 

[Groen92]

South Africa’s alcohol ban during lockdown reveals its deadly drinking habits

With fewer people drinking, and fewer people driving, more South Africans may be outliving the pandemic than would otherwise.

www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[ToxicBunny]

South Africa’s alcohol ban during lockdown reveals its deadly drinking habits

With fewer people drinking, and fewer people driving, more South Africans may be outliving the pandemic than would otherwise.

www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org

I am in two minds about that article really. Yes as a nation we do have a binge drinker problem. But it is a symptom of a much larger problem that the government is not trying to deal with. They are trying to solve problems by merely making the symptoms go away. We know how prohibition goes, and it won't even make the symptom go away,it will just drive it underground and make it worse actually.

For most middle class and up pubs and clubs the violence aspect is generally the exception, not the norm.
The problem is the taverns, they go absolutely mental and shyte gets very very very out of hand very quickly in those places.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

So how does one get onto these mailing lists... asking for a friend

Start by moving to Northern Suburbs, Cape Town...

 

[Sneeky]

South Africa’s alcohol ban during lockdown reveals its deadly drinking habits

With fewer people drinking, and fewer people driving, more South Africans may be outliving the pandemic than would otherwise.

www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Another clown with a rushed model, probably classified, and thumb suck assumptions.

Modeling trauma unit admissions that will reoccur if liquor sales resume - Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: Prof Charles Parry | Dir of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit at South African Medical Research Council

omny.fm

 

[Daz_A3]

Start by moving to Northern Suburbs, Cape Town...

Not fair - CT has all the good things

 

[AlphaJohn]

Great news: I can now confirm that there is "imports"

So even if local stock gets depleted, there is an avenue that is not. Happy smoking

 

[Nemus]

So how does one get onto these mailing lists... asking for a friend

My friend would also like to know, please. He is based in the northern subs, coincidentally.

 

[SNLV30]

On why Ramaphosa initially made that announcement she states in her court papers: “My understanding is that the president made this statement based on the view that the NCCC [National Coronavirus Command Council] had taken on the issue at the time”.

There was nothing sinister in tobacco ban decision, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says

U-turn was the result of consultations, co-operative governance minister says in court papers

www.businesslive.co.za

They did but she obviously didn't agree

 

[AlphaJohn]

So how does one get onto these mailing lists... asking for a friend

By referral only. You need someone on a list to vouch for you, someone that knows you in person.

 

[MiW]

On why Ramaphosa initially made that announcement she states in her court papers: “My understanding is that the president made this statement based on the view that the NCCC [National Coronavirus Command Council] had taken on the issue at the time”.

There was nothing sinister in tobacco ban decision, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says

U-turn was the result of consultations, co-operative governance minister says in court papers

www.businesslive.co.za

They did but she obviously didn't agree

Dlamini-Zuma contends that Fita’s cigarette ban court case, which is one of at four potential legal challenges to the lawfulness of the NCCC and its decisions, is “not urgent” and should only be heard in the week of June 9 — a possible indication that the state’s level 4 lockdown will remain in place for at least another month.

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[borro]

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Buying time. Logistics. Waiting for next memo from uncle George.

 

[ToxicBunny]

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Listen up Mama NDZ.... it is bloody urgent because you're fscking around with the livelihoods of thousands of people and costing the country billions in lost tax revenue.

Get your head out of your anti-smoking rectal cavity.

 

[Veroland]

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Nothing sinister? Then release f*cking the minutes of the meeting it was decided to continue the ban.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Nothing sinister? Then release f*cking the minutes of the meeting it was decided to continue the ban.

Can't release something that doesn't exist my friend...

 

[Veroland]

Can't release something that doesn't exist my friend...

That in itself is a bit sinister....

 

[MiW]

Lubisi states in court papers that the disclosure of these minutes “during this time of crisis would seriously jeopardise the government’s decision-making processes and as a result the management of the national state of disaster as a whole”.

Why, How? WTF were you doing to be so dangerous to reveal?

 

[Temujin]

Why, How? WTF were you doing to be so dangerous to reveal?

It'll reveal that there is no process, its just idiots throwing around their personal ideologies, nothing based on science or fact... it'll reveal CR has no control over this lockdown(or country)

 

[Lupus]

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Level 4.8 cannot go on for another month wtf!!! then we will be the country with the longest lock down for basicaly nothing. The other countries that locked down for 8 to 9 weeks did so because their deaths were skyrocketing.
The ANC is aiming for complete meltdown here.

 

[Veroland]

it'll reveal CR has no control over this lockdown(or country)

He have to do what his boss NDZ say..