Liquor Licensing - Judge Piet Ebersohn(Pretoria High Court) has requested the
Public Protector (PP) to investigate the handling
of wholesale liquor licence applications by the Department of Trade and Industry. His request relates to a number of court applications
by applicants for wholesale liquor licences.
Due to the long delay by the National Liquor Authority (NLA) to consider
these applications, the applicants asked the court to order the
authorities to consider the applications without delay.
The judge’s issue was that the State Attorney(SA) seemed to oppose these
applications for the same reasons which had been ruled against in a number of
previous, similar applications. Irrespective
of this, the SA continued to oppose these applications and then proceeded to appoint
expensive legal representatives.
This caused “scandalous” delays and wasted costs, which were
against the public interest and a waste of taxpayer’s money.
(Article by Beeld, adapted by LiquorWise)
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