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Clicks braces for post-lockdown sales pressure

Written by Super User on 23 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Karl Gernetzky

Pharmacy group Clicks expects the operating environment to be tough post-lockdown, after reporting an “unprecedented” surge in sales as customers stocked up on health-care and hygiene products.

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Turning the Egg Challenge on its head

Written by Super User on 21 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

South Africa’s Good Things Guy, Brent Lindeque has turned the latest social media challenge on its head through a partnership with SPAR, already raising over R1,1 million, to help feed South Africa’s most vulnerable citizens.

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Covid-19 shuts down Coke's biggest manufacturing plant in Gauteng

Written by Super User on 20 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Tebogo Monama, Chulumanco Mahamba and Bongani Hans

Beverage giant Coca-Cola has been forced to shut down one of its biggest manufacturing plants in Gauteng after an employee tested positive for Covid-19.

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Hardware stores can now reopen – but only to certain people

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Helena Wasserman

Stores selling hardware and vehicle components can now reopen as the next phase of the national lockdown begins – under strict conditions.

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You will now need this new certificate to stay open as an essential service during South Africa’s lockdown

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

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Companies, which are registered through the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission’s (CIPC) BizPortal to perform essential services during the lockdown period, will be required to have a new certificate for the extended period, the Department of Trade and Industry has announced.

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Fry Group Foods confirms temporary closure after employee tests positive for Covid-19

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

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The Fry Group Foods has confirmed that their Westmead premises have been temporarily closed after a manager tested positive for Covid-19.

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Ramaphosa faces liquor war as owners take him on

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Baldwin Ndaba

The new and added regulations announced by Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Thursday came while the Gauteng Liquor Forum was expecting President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to its letter of demand to relax restrictions on the sale and distribution of alcohol.

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Lockdown will be phased out gradually – Dlamini-Zuma

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Tshidi Madia

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says some of the measures the government has put in place during the lockdown will remain once it is lifted.

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Tiger Brands coronavirus closure may just be the first, chamber warns

Written by Super User on 17 April 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Khulekani Magubane

Chamber of Baking executive director Geoff Penny said the closure of Tiger Brands’ Albany bakery in Durban – one of South Africa’s largest bread producers – may put pressure on food supply after Tiger Brands found 12 employees at the bakery tested positive for Covid-19.

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