Rumours doing the rounds about the ban on liquor sales being reinstituted can be treated as fake news because the Cabinet has not even met since the Level 3 lockdown regulations came into effect.
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"Cabinet has not even met since the regulations came into effect, so there hasn't even been a discussion on the matter," Mtshali added.
News24 previously reported that trauma cases at one of Cape Town's hospitals spiked substantially since the easing of lockdown regulations under Level 3, with the majority of the cases linked to alcohol.
On Monday, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane told News24 that he would lobby national government to reinstate the ban in the province due to a surge in alcohol-related incidents since the start of Level 3.
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"We had high incidents on our roads, and we had a lot of reports of gender-based violence on the basis that people were drunk.
