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Cyril Ramaphosa has brought back the 'weekend alcohol sales ban'. But there's a way round this rule - if you can swap your favourite tipple for some wine.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Her exclusive wine collection will be available in August.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be supported by a number of various ministers during the 12th BRICS Summit on Tuesday.
Still, the world is full of falsehood, and not only do people make an effort to keep up appearances, they actually do egregious things to alter their appearance, giving the world the impression that they are, but they really are not.
There are so many people in our midst who are living in falsehood, or as we more commonly say, living a lie.
That's where we'll be heading today, down the yellow brick road to the land of falsehood, right after these reflective responses to my take on 'Ugly baby on board'.
But living the life in falsehood is right here on our shores also, as many people give the impression that their lives are so hunky-dory and peachy, when in reality it's more like Humpty Dumpty after the fall and pinchy cobie.
At times it's difficult not to live in the land of falsehood, as society demands so much, making people put on layers of acceptance that they cannot afford to maintain.
So, in 2004 EABL launched Senator Keg, an affordable alternative to illicit alcohol targeting low income consumers and was supported by government through an excise tax remission.
In the Budget Statement tabled before Parliament, the government intends to cut its excise tax remission from 80 percent to 60 percent, and the Treasury has been explaining that this decision is based on alcohol having inelastic demand.
In 2013, the government reduced excise duty remission from 100 percent to 50 percent doubling the price of keg and the consumer demand drastically plummeted.
It is a well-known fact that the price of alcohol can influence consumption levels and governments use taxes to influence consumption, heavy drinking and other alcohol harmful effects.
So, if government intends to raise more revenue from keg, it should keep the price affordable so as to expand that tax base
It is certain that in markets of alcoholic drinks that are price inelastic consumers are not sensitive to price changes, and these are the high-income consumers who are after quality and will imbibe in drinks like wine, whiskey and other drinks in that calibre.
President Cyril Ramaphosa showed his support for a South African restaurant on the Steenberg Vineyards this past weekend.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says signs of a resurgence in Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape should serve as a warning to citizens to remain vigilant.
The political reaction to Ace Magashule's impending court showdown is here: Party leaders and shadow ministers wasted no time before sticking the boot in.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Johannesburg -- In the worst-case scenario, extreme droughts could be about 100 times more likely than they were early last century
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean Afro fusion singer Philani “Phitso” Mhlanga has combined his voice with sungura musician Peter “Young Igwe” Moyo to denounce girl child abuse in song. The song, titled Dare Pavarume, was produced by Oscar Chamba of KOM Studios in Harare. BY WINSTONE ANTONIO The project comes amid a surge in cases of abuse of girl children during the coronavirus pandemic. The five-and-a-half minute song, which is available on YouTube, Reverberation, Spotify and iTunes, denounces girl child abuse. In an interview with NewsDay Life & Style yesterday, Phitso said art played an important role in educating the masses, hence the use of music to make sure that people appreciate the dangers associated with abusing the girl child. “Every woman is special, she must be respected. All men must protect the girl child. So through this song, we are saying it’s high time men speak out and educate each other to end this evil behaviour by fellow men in society,” he said. “Some of the situations that our sisters and mothers are in today are a result of us men who are causing their suffering. It’s time, the world started to respect women and those who abuse them in different ways should be punished.” Phitso, who frontlines The Legacy Band said he drew inspiration from the late music icons Oliver Mtukudzi and Tongai Moyo. In a bid to advocate for a better society through his craft, Phitso recently released a single titled Manyanya that has political connotations, which challenge and encourage men to provide for their families. Phitso said he had shelved plans to release his forthcoming album, Chigondora to concentrate on single releases in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. “We have decided to put on hold the release of the album Chigondora and concentrate on singles that will be timely in the midst of this global COVID-19 pandemic that has affected almost every sector of life,” he said. Born in the Checheche area of Chipinge, Phitso released his debut gospel album titled NaJesu Tinosvika Chete in 2013. It was followed by Dream Again Zvinoita the following year, which had hit songs MaZimbabwe, Ibva Muroad and Zvinoita. Follow Winstone on Twitter @widzoanto
[Nyasa Times] President Lazarus Chakwera says he would not guarantee favours to prophet Shepherd Bushiri who is being sought in South Africa to answer a number of cases as SABC News reports that the Pretoria Magistrates Court which granted the Christian preacher bail, convinced that they were not a flight risk, has since revoked the bail and issued arrest warrant.
Ten South African universities are pulling out all the stops to complete the 2020 academic year before the end of 2020. The other 16 are aiming for next year.
The Owl House and surrounding Camel Yard contain over 300 concrete and glass sculptures created by Helen Elizabeth Martins and her assistants. Almost all of the sculptures face towards the east, many depicting a pilgrimage to a suitably positioned nativity scene. Amongst the various sculptures Martins totem animal, the owl (which she associated with intuition, insight, and wisdom) forms an underlying theme.
Helen Martins was almost 50 before she started decorating the Owl House and creating her marvelous sculptures. She is now considered South Africas foremost Outsider Artist, although during her life she was faced with derision and suspicion.
Throughout the Camel Yard, bottle-skirted meises (girls) act as hostesses, wearing traditional Dutch caps. Also in the foreground is one of several glass-encrusted sun worshipers, ecstatically bending over backwards to greet the morning sun.
In a shed made from wine bottles, Helen Martins recreated the nativity scene. One Wise Man kneels offering gifts whilst the others are still approaching in procession. The fact that Martins created the Nativity scene in the eastern end of the yard offended many local residents, who considered it to be against the teachings of the bible.
The glass Martins used was prepared using an old coffee grinder. The glass was collected by local children, for which she paid either pennies or homemade tameletjie - a sweet made from local quinces boiled with sugar. After crushing, the glass was washed, sorted according to color, and stored in preserve jars in the pantry.
The Long Bedroom, formally an enclosed porch, has three beds and a table with an unusual serpentine leg made from concrete. On the wall is a heart shaped mirror, a common feature of the house which is seemingly at odds with the disastrous marriage she had to Willem Johannes Pienaar. All mirrors in the house are positioned well above the diminutive Martins eye level - she not only avoided being seen by others, but worked hard to avoid seeing images of herself as well.
Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would happen.
But in early March, Long found himself in Texas, launching two new Longevity wines bottled by Bronco in quantities way beyond anything Long could have produced on his own, all earmarked for distribution in major outlets most small winemakers don’t even dream about.
“I’d been making 150 cases of Longevity’s white label chardonnay here a year,” says Long, sitting in his boutique northern California winery, surrounded by wine barrels and awards, including one for 2018 Livermore Valley Winery of the Year.
Longevity’s being a certified minority-owned business heightened its appeal for Bronco along with the love story at the heart of the brand, according to Joey Franzia, Bronco’s national sales and marketing director, who told Wine Business Monthly that Long’s passion for the business was also a draw: “He has developed an exceptional brand, with a great pedigree, and we saw an opportunity to share in his vision and grow in the distribution channel.”
Phil and Debra Long of Longevity Wines (Image courtesy of Phil Long)
“From the beginning, I’ve had my hand in every detail,” says Long who created the company name and logo—a heart of interwoven grapevines made for Debra which graces every Longevity bottle and is also tattooed on Long’s arm.
We bring you the latest news in South Africa, so be sure to check out what’s making headlines on Friday 13 November.
In the case of two other friends with origins in the State of Guyana, Ras Makonnen and Cecil Miller, President Jomo Kenyatta gave them Kenyan citizenship, jobs and facilitated their permanent settlement in the country, where he wanted them laid to rest when the time finally came.
Towards the tail-end of his stay in England, Makonnen would bring together Kenyatta and a youthful countryman from Guyana called Cecil Henry Ethelwood Miller, who had just been discharged as pilot with the Royal Air Force and enrolled to study law in Britain.
It is Makonnen and young Miller in his capacity as welfare officer for immigrants from the colonies, working in liaison with Kenyatta’s buddy, Mbiyu Koinange, in Kenya, who quietly worked on Kenyatta’s grand return to Kenya after 17 years of stay in Europe.
Highly suspicious of Makonnen to be the London link between Kenyatta and Pritt, three agents from the British intelligence arm, M15, confronted him one morning with a search warrant to find out whether there was anything that could adversely be used on Kenyatta at the trial.
The “bush drum” was the secret communication channel Makonnen and other liberation crusaders in London had opened with Kenyatta’s defence lawyers through a lawyer of Caribbean extraction who practiced in Dar es Salaam, one Dudley Thompson, and youthful Miller in London.
Xbox is citing 'Unforeseen logistical challenges' for launch day in South Africa. Some stores will only receive stock after the official launch.
Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix grabbed electric guitar by the neck and wrestled it into a new era. His feedback-heavy solos and hallucinogenic tunes helped define the psychedelic 1960s. With his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience he recorded the albums Are You Experienced? (1967), Axis: Bold as Love (also 1967), and Electric Ladyland (1968, including Hendrixs version of Bob Dylans tune All Along the Watchtower). The single Purple Haze from Are You Experienced remains one of rocks touchstone classics. The band broke up in 1969 but Hendrix remained a star, playing later that year at the Woodstock music festival. Hendrix was only 27 when he suffocated in 1970 after ingesting wine and sleeping pills in a London hotel.
Jimi, like Paul McCartney, was a left-handed guitar player… Hendrix’s fuzz-guitar version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock has become a famous sound clip… He died two short weeks before another rock icon, Janis Joplin… A museum and interactive shrine to Hendrix, called the Experience Music Project, was built in Seattle by computer magnate Paul Allen.
Bushiri said he will only return to South Africa after five conditions are met.
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is proposing emergency powers to shut down bars and restaurants if they disobey the state’s public health order by serving mojitos and manhattans to patrons in an establishment.
“Many businesses and citizens have demonstrated an unwillingness to abide by the public health orders and have instead opened for business, increasing risks to the public health, safety, and welfare,” the state wrote in justifying the rule change.
“Recently the department began to receive complaints that some ABC licensees are disregarding the laws and regulations set by the department or orders from their local officials and are thereby harming the public health, safety and welfare,” the department wrote.
When a Fresno restaurant defied public health orders, it ended up paying thousands of dollars in fines for serving dine-in customers, The Fresno Bee reported.
After a Mother’s Day arrest made in front of his eatery and a $5,000 fine, restaurant owner Ammar Ibrahim wrote on Facebook that his restaurant will return to serving take-out orders only.
It’s Safe to Dine Out, Try Shamba Cafe
Friday, June 26, 2020 0:01
By JACKSON BIKO
We were seated outside a garden, admiring the architecture of Shamba Cafe, when one of us said: “Why is it that only white folks can build something like this?
He was referring to the architecture of Shamba Cafe and Shop in Nairobi’s Loresho Ridge.
It has a farm shop and a garden center.
I secretly thought it was at least, designed by a white person, I mean, come on, a barn?
“If it was a black chap,” one guy said, “they would have built a real traditional building here, not this...this.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a lockdown address to the nation on Wednesday night - and he came equipped with a major announcement on alcohol.
