Liquor outlets warned about loud music during exam time
The MEC for the Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (LEDET), Rodgers Monama has called on local liquor outlets to reduce their music after matrics started writing their final exams.
This comes after LEDET received complaints about loud music from restaurants during exam hours. Monama pleaded with all liquor licence holders near institutions of learning to drastically reduce their music. The Limpopo Liquor Board has also received complaints and said it expects liquor outlets to cooperate, especially those adjacent to schools.
“Should the licence holder be found guilty of playing loud music, the board will revoke the licence or alternatively, conditions of such licence will be drastically amended,” Monama said. “License holders are also reminded that they have a responsibility to control their customers,” Monama said. Some schools in rural areas have set up study camps for matriculants to stay at the school and are monitored by parents, teachers and the SGB.
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Most schools believe that if they keep the learners at a study camp, they will perform better than being at home studying on their own.No customer is entitled to purchase alcohol from a restaurant and consume it outside the establishment or in their cars while playing loud music and causing a nuisance. The department has attended to all the formal complaints received.
Restaurants and taverns in Limpopo are allowed to only trade until midnight, according to recent regulations. Sgt Maurice Nkhwashu at the Tzaneen Police Station encouraged the community to report any outlet playing loud music to the police. If the outlet does not cooperate, they can be charged with disturbance of peace, he said.
