TMKsouth:
South African shoppers filled trolleys with cases of beer and cider and bottles of whiskey and wine on Monday as the government eased the coronavirus lockdown to allow the sale of alcohol to resume after a nine-week ban.

South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, banned the sale of liquor in late March to ease hospital workloads and prevent a rise in domestic violence related to alcohol abuse during lockdown.

Under looser restrictions, alcohol will be sold for home consumption from Mondays to Thursdays, a welcome relief for an industry on its knees due to the ban.

An estimated 117,600 jobs have been lost in the industry, with 13% of the craft beer sector in the process of shutting, while the wine industry was in severe distress.

A few kilometres from the township, more than 100 people snaked around the parking lot of Makro Liquor, owned by Massmart , with bottle store owners loading cases of beer and cider onto pick-up trunks.

Software developer Teboho Mofokeng waited in the queue for more than two hours for his six bottles of whiskey, saying his alcohol stock ran out during lockdown.

“I’ve been without liquor for some time now,” he said. “I’m over-excited and relieved.”

Retailers like Pick n Pay and Shoprite’s Checkers supermarket chain, had allowed customers to place pre-orders online for delivery from Monday.

Some retailers placed limits on purchases, with Checkers limiting online orders to 120 litres per order.

Online alcohol stores and delivery apps were dealing with high volumes of orders after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement to further reopen the economy.

https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N2DD0LX

Mozino007:
someone should help me with d pic of that american guy that looted drinks during protest��

ololo12:
Haha! You need to have seen the crowd at the liquor store in Northgate mall. It’s crazy! South African folks don’t mess with their liquor. I don’t see the fun in drinking liquor. I’ve been sober for 2 years now

TMKsouth:


SAB is one of the largest breweries in the world, so I suspect it has a history of fueling alcohol consumption in the country. It would be interesting to compare prices with other countries - we might find alcohol is way cheaper in SA.

morpheus24:


You have to enlighten these Nigerians on the dop system popular in the western cape were people were paid with stacks and cartons of beer instead of cash. With systems like this is practice, Why wouldn't a nation of people become alcoholics?

Enoch07:
black people and liquor!!! make una enjoy jare

BELARUSIANS imbibe ALCOHOL more than any people on earth.
In Fact they breath in Alcohol and breath out Dark Rum...

That's for your Information.

Mozino007:
someone should help me with d pic of that american guy that looted drinks during protest��