South Africa has a good alcohol policy – it just needs to be implemented

By Voices360 Contributor | Published Oct 16, 2020

Since early 2020, South Africa and other countries confronting the Covid-19 pandemic have imposed extraordinary controls over the sale and consumption of alcohol. In South Africa, clause 27(2)(i) of the Disaster Management Act allows for ‘the suspension or limiting of the sale. dispensing or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the disaster-stricken or threatened area’, meaning that special restrictions can be imposed during other disaster situations as well.