The brewer says given continued market pressure in South Africa, it's become necessary to restructure its operations and reverse some of the effects of COVID-19 and the alcohol sales ban.Heineken says it will provide the necessary support to all affected employees such as prioritising them for any available internal vacancies.
According to the Beer Association of South Africa, the previous two alcohol bans saw over 7,000 jobs being lost. Over R14-billion was lost in sales revenue and 30 percent of breweries were forced to shut their doors.
ASVAAR17 Haii this year is starting on a low
Eish such a shame 😭
I thought they were leaving. Heineken clowns with threats.
Eish... Dats a tough 1... S much s we trying to b cautious bout this whole Corona thing.. Some peeps r getting retrenched if not fired
Mcm yabona kodwa uRamaphosa🤒
Drama!
BaloyiKwane Poor families getting poorer every day due to this exercise.
Dear Heineken Employees, Please don’t blame Heineken. This is your Presidents fault. The Governing Parties fault. The NCCC’s fault. The ANC’s fault.
mashoata guess someone heeded your advice
I have lived in SA since I was born. But I have never been to hospital to see someone in hospital because of booze. Am I ignorant or stupid. How would that be possible when there is curfew and lockdown Regulations. Cryl should take responsibility for those loosing their jobs.
Open alcohol
It's a bloodbath! 😭
Bheki Cele and Ramaphosa are happy now.
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Can Ramaphosa lose his Job or Share his salary with the poor South African, just for this circumstances, is not asking 3 much, ppl gonna die of hunger or Crime will climb table Mountain anyways, Some ppl are Selfish is do Sad.
At least he's just cutting jobs not closing down as he threatened earlier last yr. these decisions affect ppls lives permanently. The problem is not alcohol companies but individuals who consume alcohol. It all lies to our discipline as South Africans. We ar ill disciplined
Yes cut hau. Just like any other company did but we don't see them being published here. Mxm
Well that just means more jobs for coca cola.
They hike taxes when half the country is unemployed. Shit for brains.
This is sad 😭😭
I blame heineken drinkers 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is what happens when the government is not in the center of job creation, now companies are threatening to cut jobs so that they can get the government to allow them to operate.
When will the anc wake up
SouthAfricansP1 Are families ever going to have a peaceful mind?
Can someone tag the ANC and their leadership to see what is happening. It seems like those people have no idea what is happening in this country.
Thanks to Cyril and his alcohol ban
They must cut the jobs....
This is what happens when you have a government that only answers to big businesses. It's hardly a month since the ban, this is blackmail. I'm sorry for the workers but the MYANC SAgovnews deserve it.
More jobs will be lost. Not only in alcohol industry .Unless we bring back TERS funds
CyrilRamaphosa vha khou zwi vhona?👀
I hope they close their company too, the beer sucks anyway.
We been saying, You restrict certain industries from trading! They'll retrench our people. Investors DGAF, they only care about money.
Let them cut. We will open. Churches
I thought they were going out of the country nje
We have blacklabelsa
I work at the restaurant, and they are retrenching on Friday
AbeeAbigail26 Damn 😞
We are in trouble
It was a wrong investment to begin with, SA lost thousands of people during festive season every year because of this drug.
How many jobs must be lost before Ramaphosa opens up the economy? Alcohol industry is a major player in our ailing economy. Maybe it's time SAB and Brand house build their own hospitals for casualties caused by booze.
Maybe the whole fucken economy must be on its knees and we start from scratch. 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Oh no🤦🏽♀ this is not good 😥
Dear Mr President and your cabinet
Let's CUT ANC jobs at the ELECTIONS...
Fokof Heineken_SA yo prices are high for net Kak. Entlek hulle Moet voetsek hiso .will drink Soweto beer
Who is going to employ these people, Government?
Heineken please don't do it. I promise to buy 24 every weekend after lock down.
I know that at the Sedibeng brewery they already retrenched 76 people and have cut salaries of those they could keep. SAD 💔
Since alcohol was bannes I've yet to see those Savanna videos
Really... enough with these stunts
It was expected with the economy and the lockdown
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Here we go...Heineken_SA
The MYANC feels fokol for its people.
Clap hands for so called Corona virus council and the President
Poor government Ordinary citizens are the once who suffer this big cats are loaded from looting from the poor 💔💔💔
SciTheComedist Its time for the government to lift the ban. Save jobs. Save businesses. Save livelihoods.
Its very bad
SAnz are a quiet nation and a tolerant one too.
SAnz are a quite nation and a tolerant one too.
zvineigw jj_the_bug
Alcohol should be closed at least up until end of March so that it would come as a lesson to those who drink and Dunusa
Hope you are going to hire those people cause they need to eat at the end of the day PresidencyZA DrZweliMkhize , mxmn😡😡😡😡
Baze bahlukumezeka abantu baseMzansi
I guess that makes the government happy because people are becoming unemployed due to their own personal issues with alcohol
Well done CyrilRamaphosa
💥 We need to cut drinking alcohol in South Africa.... It's nice and peaceful lately 🤔 Heineken you need to increase production of 0,0 alcohol drinks👌🏾
Heineken_SA there are way to find with the ban,government and politicians without hurts our poor people! Its not like if u make more profit u pay them more money
Hunger is a crucial matter, and causes a serious damage in society.
This is sad that the whole supply network will be affected, from raw materials supplier & the packaging suppliers, distribution and warehouses. The incompetence of the current government is actually burying the economy and the lowest at the ranking will mostly be affected
barrybateman Oooy😔
Fuck Ramaphosa💔
Psyzah Of course
Selfish people think this is a joke, these companies must cut down on expenses cos they not making money but guess who will suffer the consequences us ordinary people
I hate seeing this serious
Spiderz_007 CyrilRamaphosa MYANC SAPoliceService Police are good on arresting alcohol offenders. Open sales of alcohol & save jobs, make police work Let all who are injured due to alcohol be the last priority in hospital private/public even if they die is ok. Cant afford more unemployment
khensani_sebola Heineken only employs a mere 1000 people? 😳
This hits home. Why Heineken and not Castle Lite yomsuzo?
CyrilRamaphosa Our economy will never grow...
I am sure ramaphosa and his team will be happy to see this
I'm sure our government will be happy the country will be full of unemployed households, while these old people continue to loot and steal money when they supposed to be in pension. They get full salaries since the lockdown hence they don't give a Damn about us.
We are being lead by clueless madalas. This will be the legacy of Cyril Ramaphosa.
☹️😥💔
And the thieves are planning tax hike...smh
Fake news
It’s a world wide practice. Why now so new when 1 year later they are still doing it. This virus is here to stay and form part of our daily lives. The better people adapt and accept the new normal, because the virus won’t. AfterCovid19 hospitality Management
ANC and Floyd Shivambu EFF don't care about job creation. No one is threatening SA. This is a true reflection of a government that care less about the economy but their own personal household economy. This will eventually have dire consequences and high crime levels all added too
Can they cut the crazy outta the drink tho?
I blame ramaphosa
It was coming.. GovernmentZA will just add them to the Unemployment Stats and that's it..💯
barrybateman 😒😒😒 They just want to put pressure on the government to open alcohol... They playing mind games, we see right through them. Which jobs to be exact will be cut. Liquifruit will hire those ppl. They should hav controlled their drunken customers, bt they were focused on profit
I think of forex as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Why not start with Tonyfred42 so you know what I mean and get to grow and excel in it. Goodluck everyone don’t forget to hit him up Tonyfred42
🥂
If you are working shut up!
why not close down permanently? we must promote local brands not foreign brands
LethaboAphane10 This 1ns they must voetsek!!!!
pmcafrica Expected all thanks to y'all dad uRamaphosa
Tsek you making upnormal profit now you want to pin this on government
Thanks to Cyril and zweli families will die of hunger ,how about that
You can hire them again when demand comes back
CyrilRamaphosa please do something
That's what the government want want and they don't care
BamboThulani Let them FOK OFF! People are dying & they focused on profit ... Go to Hell Satan Agents!
segodi_chuene
And then when alcohol is open? Why are they acting up?
What were we expecting. If I was one of those unfortunate people me and my daughter would be homeless in 10 weeks. It's not a joke 😩 our government enjoy watching us, tax payers that pay their salaries suffer. They forget without our taxes they are also fkd
I hope our government is happy now
Everyone who has never known the pain of losing a job or going to bed hungry will tweet out they ass in reply to this.
Even though the first lockdown was justified but any sane person knew we can’t afford another one because of where we are economically. But this is the ANC
Please unban booze 🤷♂️
Lift the ban. Save jobs! Livelihoods matter.
MalumeSharepart Anyone who thinks the alcohol ban was/is a good idea is a fool.
MalumeSharepart Tough times 😰
We are not surprised.
Niyakthanda ukukhuluma neh. Okay since alcohol was banned, has the infections decreased? Hospitals are coping? Noma nicabangela nina nodwa. Vele kodwa because imsebenzi yenu zi secured niyasebenza ingakho nikhuluma njalo kanje. Labantu bazolahlelwa umsebenzi have families to feed
And after they cut jobs ,they must pack and go we still have a Carling black label
its okay this beer is not that interesting anymore so send the stuff to black label or castle
barrybateman The domino effect has begun. 😬
The ANC's 6 month alcoholban has resulted in: - Hundreds of job losses - R8 -10 billion in alcohol industry taxes and funding gone to waist - A booming black market While they looted the covidrelieffund An outright ban was never necessary. They didn't even try a middle ground
Heineken_SA, stop blaming covid. Covid didn't cause any of this. This is all the government's handy work.
The ANC's 6 month alcoholban has resulted in: - Hundreds of job losses - R8 -10 billion in alcohol industry taxes and funding gone to waist - A booming black market While they looted the covidrelieffund An outright ban was never necessary. They didn't even find a middle ground
teboholenake 💔
Obviously
Cyril will have tears from being shocked.
This companies made money for years the want to say i can't survive for a month?
Kuyabeda
😡😡😡😡 VoetsekANC
Heineken_SA why are you inpatient? The alcohol ban will be lifted when things are under control. People are losing their loved ones and now you want them to lose their jobs too.
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70 workers? definitely just sending a message
barrybateman Start with the ANC members
Kudos, I hope Cupcake and Bhekutshwala are happy.
Which is why they hide 5G spectrum installation being corona BS to avoid litigation against casualties and loss of earnings We see you maphixiphixi
barrybateman GovernmentZA CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA DlaminiZuma DrZweliMkhize
Thapelo16398937
Noma ngavulwa beer vele imali ayikho😒
CyrilRamaphosa
🤣😅😆😆😁😄😆😅🤣🦧🦧🦧🦍🦍🐒🐵🐵🐒🐒🦍🦧🦧🦧🦍🐒🐒🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧
TinneyIce 💔💔
Phelele_Gama Uyabona. Asisaphuzi phela
People drink irresponsibly and now we are blaming the state. Only is people could control their drinking habits, alcohol is supposed to be on sale but because they are irresponsible, this are consequences. Don't blame the state, brame irresponsible drinking. Let's save Lives
Alcohol is useless. When people cos accidents after drinking don't care and it becomes the problem of the state. All they care about is prifit.
I do not blame them even myself if i was Heineken was going to do the same. Can't keep on running at a loss due to incompetent leadership never. MYANC what they know best is to loot mxm.
That's 11 Billion just between the divestment from SAB and Heineken alone. Well done, PresidencyZA, Well done MYANC - no doubt you will try to blame that on Apartheid too, not your own stupidity, complete ineptitude, and lack of willingness to actually police the law!!
The blame lays straight at the door of My ANC 500 billion gone people are losing there jobs how are we gonna feed our families they should have restricted the sale of alcohol as take away
Yeses💔
SAB must also cut jobs, even liquor retailers must do the same cos it seems as if the fight is not against the disease but the alcohol industry. Other industries are fully functional except fot the alcohol industry. .
stsipaDaflippa Daaamn
A round of applause to the MYANC and CyrilRamaphosa. Hope you are proud of yourself. This is just a small picture when u think of tarven owners, bottle store owners. On the same breath, u want to hike taxes? Pure results of mismanagement of 1.hospitals and of 2.state resources
LuloCafe Is that a threat?
barrybateman 😓
CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA DrZweliMkhize Just go back to the Monday to Thursday sales. 10-5. I thank you.
They should canvas all their workers and fire the ANC supporters first.
I’m back with smile on my face again thanks to marksust7 I don’t know what to say I was skeptical but I am proud to let the world know that you’re the reason behind my successful trades life!!🙏🙏🙏🙏 God bless you for your good work
barrybateman This is when an ironfist Mugabe style leadership is needed in South Africa.
Nj_Tohlang I blame Savanah for this
tumaska 🙆🏿
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I just saw some gents drinking Heineken zero alcohol.. they looked sad & depressed.. open the alcohol 🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️
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I do not blame them
Tag the SA government 💔😢😭😭
I remember last time Heineken says is out of south africa .
This was expected, therz more to come🤞 I believe this is the beginning of an economic pandemic ke manje
This is not good
I work for Heineken SA which means....😭😭😭😭
The alcohol ban is good in protecting livelihoods and for those who were too dependent on it but the government is still not fixing the inefficiency of our hospitals & health admin which was a mess even b4 covid, it would’ve been better if they were fixing their sh£&
Our family businesses also had to cut jobs are you going to report that too ? You can text me I wont Somizi you.
Yoooh🙆🏾♀️
Shows you that corporate don't care about lower employees
This is terrible guys!!!!
Is this an advertorial ? We know Heineken is one of your biggest advertisers did they pay you to write this ?
barrybateman Good. Start with the ANC voters, it’s time for them to payback for the ANC’s sins.
Mxxm
When alcohol is open people don’t drink safely and responsibly when they know the situation at hand they stop thinking about the same workers they always think about when it’s closed 😂😂😂😂😂
PresidencyZA still saving lives over people losing ability to feed themselves 🤷🏽♀️
Truck owners contracted to SAB have lost their trucks. Alcohol ban was never the solution, I blame those clowns at NCCC
PresidencyZA This country is becoming a shit hole day by day under Anc administration . Revolt , Revolt against dictatorship . Power to the people !
Juks_Afrika This is bad😩💔
Bame kancane kuvulwe utshwala...they'll be back in business in week 😭🙏🏽
It's Getting Harder And Harder Every Day 😢 It's Bad And Saddening . We're Just Defeated As A Country.
lindym2909
This was highly expected,now who do we blame? The government or the irresponsible alcohol consumers
Pitso_Sb
The ban is unreasonable. Festive season is over. At least they must open for take away.
It's possible to open booze with restrictions, groove yona mayihlale ivaliwe and people will do takeaways
Viva AnC Viva!!!! VoetsekANC
masagwadi eff hate jobs especially for south Africans
Where are those who were blaming SAB. It can only get worse from here if this ban isn’t lifted with immediate effect
barrybateman Our tax base is busy shrinking , very soon we are going to be amongst the poorest countries in Africa .
Thanks to Ramaphosa and the idiotic anc government
Business is responding to unfair regulations. Government must take responsibility for increased unemployment. They still have huge government full of old ministers who should have retired years ago. ANC does not show a good example.
Livelihoods continue to be affected because of the incompetence of the ANC govt!!! This was an article in 2010, hospital beds have ALWAYS been an issue yet today, alcohol is blamed. Lift the ban and only sell from Mon to Thur - for off site consumption.
barrybateman They must just close down.
Hopefully HealthZA will provide jobs to increase capacity of the health system
Isukile
Shit is going to hit the fan 😢
End the alcohol ban
It's what the ANC wants. They're devious criminals. Destruction of South Africa and reliance on them by their voting masses.
I saw this coming I wonder what's ParliamentofRSA , PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa , MYANC their take on this very sad more to come this very year .
Yey wena CyrilRamaphosa ,yabona manje
Not good hey
Ey. We are held at random in this country.
What's new? Heineken has been cutting jobs and livelihoods of many young 'Midrand' professionals for a long time.
Every industry is affected
eNCA is a beneficiary of the so called Alcohol and tobacco industries, they don't have interest on people that lost they jobs in other sector mining, media, hospitality even small business the thing they care about is Heineken
barrybateman Viva ANC Viva!!
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More bad news for s.a people jobs cuts😢
Imagine if people voluntarily stopped drinking
Abantu batya R500 billion yonke now we have to suffer , fuck I hate the ANC CyrilRamaphosa
Lol this is just a strategy to let the government open These alcohol companies make alot of money in this country So cutting jobs is a bit weird
Nkanyiso_ngqulu They are crazy we spent a lot of money on this beer just last year for them to not have money to pay salaries
The main problem with our government they don’t make calculated rational decisions. They should just allow takeaway sales only and then enforce the curfew that’s
Eish Covid
Ramaphosa & his administration must be proud of this I'm sure.
Job losses😭😭😭😭
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CyrilRamaphosa and PresidencyZA will employ those who r affected 🤷🏾♂️
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