Sakeliga to meet DTI over ‘nonsensical’ hot food ban
Business group Sakeliga will meet with the Department of Trade and Industry on Friday to discuss the ban on the sale of hot food.
CEO Piet le Roux says the meeting comes after Sakeliga earlier threatened legal action to overturn the ban.
"We cannot work on uncertainty, where whatever a minister pronounces on public statements becomes law the next day and we have to work with that. Secondly, no country in the world has banned hot cooked food, so there is no health reason for the ban.
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Le Roux believes there is no difference between buying frozen food and prepared hot food.
"What this is simply doing is lowering the supply of food, raising prices and its putting especially small and medium enterprises and informal traders out of business when they could help solve a crisis.”