Ban on alcohol and cigarettes in South Africa

[pinball wizard]

Eskom is a huge employer, is very top-heavy in terms of management and inefficient.

It's one of the things that sank SAA, corruption and theft notwithstanding, artificial job creation will kill any enterprise.

 

[R13...]

Eskom is a huge employer, is very top-heavy in terms of management and inefficient. If you allow IPP people will clearly see the difference and Eskom will have to sack people to stay competitive - not what the unions want.

Yes, unions fear IPPs as they don't provide the sort of job for life security that SOEs provide. They would have little influence at IPPs so, don't want that to take off.

 

[Cray]

Kopdoek calling others unqualified...

Considering how cadre deployment in the ANC works, I wasn't aware that qualifications ever entered the picture...

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

A contact tells me Consol Glass has been told to turn on their furnaces back on...

They never turned it off...that's why they were losing millions everyday.

 

[Cray]

A contact tells me Consol Glass has been told to turn on their furnaces back on...

I know someone who works at Spar head office, she seems to think Monday will allow for alcohol sales but with significant changes to sales times compared to the last relaxation. Taking it all with a pinch of salt..

 

[bwana]

They never turned it off...that's why they were losing millions everyday.

R8 million

 

[dualmeister]

So I guess Koosie is going to wait until Sunday night again to open his useless mouth.

 

[MiW]

UCT academic accuses local cigarette firms of making a fortune during tobacco ban

He said 90% of cigarettes sold since March 27 were of brands produced locally, giving the lie to the claim by industry groups that the black market was flooded with counterfeit products.

www.iol.co.za

"The fact that Fita instituted the court case is especially ironic in that their members have been the main beneficiaries of the sales ban. Fita members have greatly increased their market share and have increased the price of their product by nearly 500 percent on average," Van Walbeek.

 

[Currantly]

Alcohol industry says it’s hoping ban on sale of liquor will be lifted soon

JOHANNESBURG - The country's alcohol industry remains hopeful the ban on liquor sales will be lifted soon.

The President is under pressure to do away with the lockdown curb, which was aimed at freeing up bed capacity in trauma and intensive care unit (ICU) wards amid the peak of the coronavirus epidemic.

But the measure places thousands of jobs at risk.

Linky

 

[Koosie]

So I guess Koosie is going to wait until Sunday night again to open his useless mouth.

Mmm, how about today?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

So I guess Koosie is going to wait until Sunday night again to open his useless mouth.

and it takes quite a few drinks to suffer through his boring dialog, so if he does not lift the ban that speech just drains your stockpile faster

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Kopdoek calling others unqualified...

if your name is literally 'Whitey', your skin colour too, plus you represent that faux evil that is WMC you better not criticise the ANC ... the when-to-play-the-tired-old-race-card detection radar will be on hyper alert

 

[FaSMaN]

Kopdoek is a big wild card, shes the one that kicked up the big fuss the first time around, I am fairly sure she will do the same thing this time round, the question is just who will win out Ramaphosa or her, Ramaphosa this time round might not take lightly to it seeing as it destroyed his reputation the first time round.

 

[IdlePhaedrus]

So I guess Koosie is going to wait until Sunday night again to open his useless mouth.

No point listening. Not until the doektater has spoken.

 

[dualmeister]

The radio said they expect him to "address" us tomorrow.

 

[caroper]

The radio said they expect him to "address" us tomorrow.

It will probably be on Saturday so that on Sunday we can be told he was wrong again and the bans remain in force on Monday.

 

[MiW]

The radio said they expect him to "address" us tomorrow.

I demand our loadshedding to be canceled tomorrow evening , so I can listen to our great lizard leader.

 

[Kola_CT]

I bet they will drop the alcohol ban now...

 

[Nerfherder]

UCT academic accuses local cigarette firms of making a fortune during tobacco ban

He said 90% of cigarettes sold since March 27 were of brands produced locally, giving the lie to the claim by industry groups that the black market was flooded with counterfeit products.

www.iol.co.za

Its called slight of hand.

 

[bwana]

Mmm, how about today?

It would make sense seeing as they need to extend the lockdown by tomorrow iirc.