18/08/2020
Important news......🚩‼️🎣🤿🏖🏝🏞🏕🏜🛩🚤⛱🌞☀️
*The new regulations for lockdown level 2 have just been gazette*
Here's what you need to know about the now-formal rules for Alert Level 2.
*Alcohol sales*
The sale of liquor by a licensed premises for off-consumption is permitted from 09:00 to 17:00, from Mondays to Thursdays. That means liquor stores are closed on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays. But you can buy alcohol at a licensed premises for on-site consumption over the weekend until the curfew of 22:00, so you can drink at a restaurant or bar over the weekend.
_See also_ - You may want to check the expiry date on that beer before you pay
*No more to***co ban*
Level two has no provisions on to***co, which means no restrictions or limits on the sale of ci******es, va**ng liquid, pipe to***co, chewing to***co, or anything associated with those products.
*Curfew rules*
The curfew runs from 22:00 to 04:00, unless you have a permit to perform an essential service, or if you are attending to a security or medical emergency.
*Masks*
You are still not allowed to be in a public place, use any form of public transport, or enter a public building, place or premises, if you are not wearing a face mask.
*Weddings*
Weddings are now allowed - but only up to 50 people. Attendance at a funeral is also still limited to 50 persons, and night vigils are still not allowed.
*Sport matches*
No spectators are allowed, nor international fixtures.
*Social events*
You can have friends over, but only up to 10 visitors can come to your house.
*Hotels, guesthouses - and Airbnb*
• Leisure accommodation is now allowed, even if you are from another province - "subject to a restriction on the number of persons allowed in such establishments to not more than 50 percent of the available floor space, with patrons observing a distance of at least one and half meters from each other".
• For the first time since the start of the lockdown on March 27th, Airbnb establishments are also now permitted to do business again.
*Concerts and entertainment events*
Only 50 people are permitted at an event, or in a cinema.
*Gyms*
Only up to 50 people may be admitted to a gym. The same applies to sports grounds and fields as well as swimming pools.
*Leisure activities*
• Beaches and public parks can open for all activities.
• Nightclubs must stay closed
• While bars, taverns, shebeens, and similar establishments can open - with a limitation of 50 persons or less, nightclubs must remain closed.
• bars can open, but nightclubs – and only nightclubs – still closed
*Travel*
International passenger air travel for leisure purposes and passenger ships for international leisure remain prohibited. But all restrictions on inter-provincial have been lifted - including leisure travel.
*Initiation practices are still banned*
For the duration of the national state of disaster male and female initiation practices are prohibited.
