Booze blues or backyard brews? SA's alcohol sales leave us guessing
Police in the Tshwane District disposed of a total of 6,431,959 milliliters of confiscated alcohol.
If the latest Statistics South Africa's figures on food and beverage sales are taken at face value, South Africans are either drinking more at home, drinking less, or drinking hooch.
Sales of illegal alcohol – such as bottles smuggled into the country – are on the increase and now account for 20% of all booze drunk in South Africa – a problem that intensified when the Covid-19 shuttered sales of both alcohol and smokes.
Statistics South Africa's data for the month of April shows that bar sales – income from alcohol sales – are on a downward trajectory, although the value of sales in the fourth month of the year did not decline as much as in February, when income from bar sales dropped 7.9%.
At the same time, the cost of a drink is increasing.
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