Apparently some people were partying too hard for the health system’s liking, so our booze was taken away again. Ironically, this left more people ‘pissed’ just in a different way, some because of perceived illegality.Booze buyers stock up as the initial ban on the sale of alcohol was lifted. Picture: Michel Bega
On the one hand, one can understand the need to avoid hospital visits for avoidable injuries; something nearly all my doctor friends corroborate. On the other hand, if one estimates some 600 hospitals in South Africa with 10 alcohol related injuries per day over the 42 days the alcohol ban was lifted, that’s a mere 0.
In South Africa, our rules may have various sources, from judgments to legislation, to regulations, to international instruments, but the manner in which they are formed and the bodies responsible for forming them are all informed by chains trickling from the Constitution. The legal purist in me felt paralyzed by the thought that our president could commit such a jurisprudential sin and my phone lit up with messages asking, “can he really do that?”, which is where the practical side of me had to come out.
For those asking why this is a problem now and was stemming from previous speeches, it’s not because of the alcohol ban itself. It is because of the “immediate effect” bit. Never before has the president announced anything to start immediately. He would make announcements of what is to come and then the regulation would follow.
And then to the everyday citizen if/when it starts to affect them and more especially if the formalities are complied with less now now and more just now.
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