The ban on the sale of alcohol was lifted on June 1.
reported that the Western Cape government said its hospitals were under pressure due to an increase in trauma cases linked to alcohol consumption. These had increased since government lifted the ban on the sale of alcohol on June 1, when SA went to lockdown level 3.
On the same day, police minister Bheki Cele said there was a spike in murder cases, also allegedly linked to the unbanning on alcohol. He was speaking from the Jabulani hostel in Soweto, where six men were shot and killed on Monday evening. Cele said during the lockdown, police registered about 30 cases of murder nationally per day, but these have increased, up to 69 on Sunday last week. There was also an increase in attempted murder and gender-based violence cases,
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