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BURNING HEAT: Fire fighters had their hands full containing a massive veld fire in Deer Park, Vredehoek, on Saturday 31 October. Residents in Bridle, Molteno and Glencore Roads had to be temporarily evacuated, but the City’s disaster risk management department says there was no need for emergency sheltering. The blaze, that destroyed approximately 50 hectares of veld, was fanned by strong winds. Fire crews remained on scene throughout the day on Sunday 1 November. One fire fighter was injured but later released from hospital. According to Philip Prins, fire manager for Table Mountain National Park, mop up operations could extend to Wednesday. PHOTO: SANPARKS| FACEBOOK
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Pubs, bars battle for life KAYLYNNE BANTOM KAYLYNNE.BANTOM@MEDIA24.COM
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e need tourists to return; our businesses are struggling.” So says JP Schmidt general manager at Beerhouse, a gastropub in Long Street. Schmidt says Cape Town is a tourism city and adds that since no tourists has been able to enter the country for the past seven months due to the lockdown, the business has suffered a major loss in revenue. He explains that the pub’s future is looking bleak. “We have gone from a monthly revenue of R1.4 million to about R200 000, sometimes even less. That must cover rent, utility bills, buying of stock and salaries.” A despondent Schmidt says he cannot say with certainty whether the business, which has another branch is Tygervalley, will be able to survive another month. “We need at least R500 000 a month to break even. We have a backlog in suppliers
as we haven’t been able to pay for rentals.” He explains that Fridays, which were usually their busiest day, are now as quiet as any other day in the week. “We are not making a fraction of what we should or used to. If we make R2 000 for the day, it’s a lot.” He says there has been no adequate assistance from government for businesses, especially those in the dining industry. David Maynier, provincial minister of finance and economic opportunities, recently kicked off the “We are Open” tourism campaign. The campaign, which is run in collaboration with Wesgro, is aimed at urging South Africans to take advantage and explore the many tourist attractions the city and province has to offer. Maynier says: “As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions on international travel, there are many whose plans to travel abroad can no longer go ahead. And so, the ‘We Are Open’ campaign asks them to consider travelling to Cape Town and the Western Cape instead and take advantage of our beautiful natural and cultural assets that ri-
val the likes of Italy, Sweden, France, Bali and more.” A bartender at The Slug and Lettuce bar, who wants to remain anonymous, says business has been bad since the start of lockdown. “On a good day we get about six to 10 customers. That is not even a fraction of what we’re used to.” She adds that because the pub can only operate until a certain time, due to the curfew, staff members suffer financially because they cannot work full shifts anymore. Lockdown regulation under alert level one stipulate that no persons is allowed on the streets between midnight and 4:00 in the morning. A curfew which Schmidt believes places them under even more strain. Meanwhile Capt Tobias Du Plessis, designated liquor officer at the Cape Town central police station, says it is important that business stick to the curfew times to prevent being fined or facing penalties. He says common challenges police face now, when doing patrols, is finding that restaurants who are only allowed, according to
their license, to operate as a restaurant are now selling or serving liquor as well. Or bars that are operating as a nightclub. “For October we had two arrests where bars were operating as a nightclub. We had a further four arrests where nightclub owners and managers were arrested for being in contravention of the Disaster Management Act.” According to the Western Cape Liquor Act a person may not micro-manufacture or sell liquor unless authorised to do so, in terms of a licence issued in terms of this Act, the Liquor Act or the Liquor Act, 1989 (Act 27 of 1989). A person who is authorised to micro-manufacture or sell liquor must do so in accordance with the conditions of the licence. Du Plessis says club and restaurants should familiarise themselves with the regulations: “A person who, without being exempted in terms of section 84(1) or (2), micromanufactures or sells liquor in contravention of subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence.”
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