The three sales bans the government has imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic have placed South Africans' alcohol abuse and the booze industry's predatory nature firmly in the spotlight.
The liquor industry is built on the back of exploitation and human suffering. It really shouldn't have come as a surprise to see South Africa's biggest brewery caught in a storm of accusations about undermining government policy, all in the name of profiteering while thousands of people were, and still are, dying because of Covid-19.
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