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Article highlights:
- Grocery retailer Pick n Pay’s CEO Pieter Boone says the alcohol sales ban urgently needs to be lifted;
- Independent retailers won’t survive if it goes on for much longer;
- In total, 136 of Pick n Pay’s food, grocery, clothing and building stores across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng were looted and/or burnt down, along with 76 liquor stores.
