During the current lockdown regulations the minister should focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and how to alleviate its effects, he said.The Agri Initiative is one of the parties who along with several wine farmers will ask for an urgent order to lift the ban on the selling and transporting of wine under the Covid-19 lockdown regulations.
In his latest affidavit, Rossouw said from reading the record on which the minister based her decision to ban alcohol sales during this time, it appears that she did not even consider differentiating between types of alcohol, its usage and sale. “No information regarding these ‘polls’ and the manner in which they were conducted is provided. It was merely accepted since it suits the impugned decision.”
Rossouw said a more practical and less restrictive approach would have been to lift these restrictions on an area or city basis, and to selectively impose it in high-risk Covid-19 areas.
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