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LEGALLY SPEAKING – Legal duty of care owed by taverns to customers.

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Most taverns are notoriously known for their unsafety and violent activities. Serious assaults, bar fights, and sometimes deaths are not unheard of in taverns. Most societies have come to accept such occurrences at taverns. As a consequence of this acceptance, most incidents are not reported. In recent weeks, South Africa has seen a worrisome rise in mass deaths at taverns. These, unlike isolated incidents of violent behaviour, are particularly worrying because they are happening at a mass scale and within a short space of time.

Within the past few weeks, several incidents of tavern deaths have occurred including the death of 21 children at Enyobeni, Eastern Cape, 15 people in Soweto, Gauteng, and 4 people in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, 8 people were seriously injured in the Pietermaritzburg shooting. Again, in Eastern Cape, there was a separate assault incident which led to the death of a 19-year-old teenager.
27 Jul 2022 6AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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