My Opinion piece on the Gauteng's proposed liquor bill.

Gauteng’s proposed liquor bill a big blow for the residents and businesses.

                                                                                                Trevor           Hlungwani.

I will keep it short and to the point: if the government ban liquor sales on Sundays I swear the sales will double, if not triple on Saturdays. At least it will give the consumers enough time to freeze their drinks for the long Sunday afternoon.

The proposed draft liquor legislation aims to prevent the sale of liquor in taverns, shebeens, restaurants and any other liquor outlets in the Gauteng province on Sundays.

When I count my calendar well, freedom day next year will be celebrated on a Sunday, should the bill be passed, it will mean that the poor Gauteng civilians will not enjoy the day. Do we still call that a freedom day? I mean any South African can agree with me that the best way to celebrate a holiday is through drinking and having a braai. 

What’s so special about Sunday? The bill, if passed, is not going to solve anything, as Sunday is not even one of the biggest drinking days.

My question is will churches be prohibited from conducting the Holy Communion considering the fact that not all glasses have grape fruit in them?

I can already see police taking advantage by roaming around townships like lost tourists, checking if they are really selling at Bra Biza’s or Sis Joyce and intimidating them into paying bribes if they are not abiding, I don’t blame them, after all their silly pays allows that.

How is it going to help curb alcohol abuse? I believe a possible solution would be to educate people about responsible drinking or alcohol consumption. Rather than introducing stupid laws, the government should put more money into policing to combat drunk driving and charge these drunk drivers with attempts to cause accidents and deaths by extension, and suspend their driver’s licences for 3 years.

This is not the kind of legislation needed if we are to play a meaningful part in job creation. With ICASA granting licence to TOP TV to air pornographic channels, I guess the next thing the government is going to do is to ban of television,

Township people will be forced to get high on home-brewed which do not go through inspection and can easily turn out to be pure poison and can claim man lives. According to a friend experience should the police test a person who is drunk of this beer they will not get any sign of alcohol in his/her system. These speak volume of its fatal nature.

I guess Soshanguve residents are safe! Catching a taxi to Ga-Rankuwa to have some serious drinking on Sundays is not a time-consuming task, after all Ga-Rankuwa is in North-West province.