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On Prohibition: the USA 100 years ago vs South Africa in 2020

“THERE WE WERE, just thinking that this current prohibition, imposed under the guise of limiting the spread of Covid, was about to end with Wednesday’s presidential announcement [13 May 2020].” By ‘Wine Wizard’ Michael Fridjhon, courtesy of Port2Port, seven weeks into the lockdown imposed by the South African government on 27 March 2020 to limit Coronavirus infections, to flatten the

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And so it began… SA wine festival cancellations in the wake of Covid-19

THE Fijnwyn Bubbles and Food Festival scheduled to take place in Pretoria on 20 and 21 March was the first top South African wine event in 2020 to be called off in line with the SA government’s banning of gatherings involving more than 100 people as one of the measures to combat the Coronavirus – the pandemic having begun in

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