'Liquor and braai restrictions counter-productive'

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Government efforts to cut liquor trading hours and ban braai stands at butcheries could have far-reaching ramifications and prove counter-productive as hundreds find themselves jobless overnight.

The country's sole brewer of clear beer, Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (KBL), has announced that 92 workers will be retrenched at the end of March.

The government revised liquor-trading hours and imposed a 30-percent levy on alcohol in November last year. The punitive surcharge on consumers of alcohol is threatening the viability of KBL, which faces tough competition from international alcohol brands.

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