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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
