Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, why some South Africans

have been celebrating a nationwide ban this year on alcohol. A lot of the women are telling us that

their communities have never felt better. They've never felt safer. They've never looked cleaner.

So there's a lot of people who are actually happy with the absence of alcohol from our homes. But others, meanwhile,

are warning against the hazards of outright prohibition. They mainly drive the market underground.

They tend to be violent. They tend to have poor quality control, so one gets more accidental poisoning as overdoses.

You forego the opportunity to collect tax revenue, and they're bad for minority communities in particular.

To ban or not to ban, the alcohol question on Business Daily from the BBC.

Including the Western Cape where it was highest, the Eastern Cape where it kept rising and how it was alarmingly going out.

The voice of Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president addressing the nation back on August

the 15th.

After four months of a strict ban prohibiting the sale and transportation of liquor across the

country, a bar full of eager drinkers in Soweto is now watching with bated breath to see what

he says.

I'm just hoping that you will say that it's going to release the alcohol.

It's just going to reopen it so that we can live our lives as it was before.

The suspension of the sale of alcohol will be lifted subject to certain restrictions.

Alcohol will be committed to all-side.

In this establishment, at least the news of the end of the alcohol ban

is met with unvarnished joy.

I don't know what to say, I'm just overwhelmed.

I love you, Ramobos.

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