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Queues, jubilation, as liquor stores open for the first time in months

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Many people expressed jubilation to be able to buy alcohol on the first day of Level 3. Picture:  Cebile Ntuli
Many people expressed jubilation to be able to buy alcohol on the first day of Level 3. Picture: Cebile Ntuli

People braved the chilly weather to queue to buy alcohol on Monday. The sale of alcohol was banned during level 4 and Monday was the first day that people were allowed to buy alcohol for home consumption during level 3 of the national Covid-19 lockdown.

City Press photographer Cebile Ntuli was out and about in Gauteng on Monday, and captured these images:

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