The Club, Bar and Restaurant Association of the Western Cape says it has already paid legal costs amounting to R100 000 and is awaiting a legal opinion from its advocate Jan Heunis. The legal opinion is expected on Monday.
On Wednesday the city said it would not gazette amendments to the bylaw while it awaits a legal review of the legislation.
The association said at a meeting yesterday that it was still planning to interdict the city from implementing its bylaw once certain amendments have been gazetted.
Yesterday the city issued a statement saying that it had commissioned a legal review of its new bylaw before any amendments were gazetted.
Zeeshaan Nordien, a spokesman for the group, said the fact that the city won't be gazetting the amendments today came as "good news for us". "But they are just looking at little flaws. They are probably going to have a much stronger bylaw and won't look at the constitutionality of it and how it's going to impact on us. But we've got some breathing space."
He said they would go after the Western Cape Liquor Act once the bylaw was out of the way.
Vusa Mazula, owner of Zula Sound Bar in Long Street, said it was important that the group didn't "melt away" like it did last year when the liquor bylaw was gathering steam. (from IOL)
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