Alcohol ban return? Rumours fuel revived panic over liquor sales

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Alcohol ban return? Rumours fuel revived panic over liquor sales

Messages are doing the rounds suggesting that the alcohol ban will return, South Africans find themselves in a renewed state of panic.

Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

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