JEREMY MAGGS: The National Liquor Traders Association has launched an urgent court application to interdict the implementation of the Limpopo Liquor Act of 2009. The act prohibits the sale of alcohol after midnight and is set to be affected tomorrow. With us now is Lucky Ntimane from the National Liquor Traders Association, a very warm welcome to you.
But also the people who are employed in that space are paid on an hourly basis. So those people will then earn two hours less on a day. JEREMY MAGGS: How do you respond to critics who might argue that limiting the sale of alcohol after midnight is a reasonable restriction for public safety reasons? We want to be convinced through facts that this is in fact going to work. Limpopo is not even in the top three of crimes in the country [sic].
Maybe it is wise, maybe we need to start having a conversation that because we’re one country, why don’t we have just one liquor law because the issues of alcohol abuse affect everyone. You can’t have a situation where in Limpopo things are done differently to how they’re done in Gauteng. There’s a reason why, Jeremy, why this case is not sitting tomorrow is because we had asked the MEC to revert back to us with a way forward on July 27, which was on a Thursday, because that would’ve given us enough time to file papers and give government 72 hours, as it’s required by the state. There’s a state law that requires that if you take government to court, they need to give them 72 hours.
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