Media Invite

All Media

29 August 2025

Eastern Cape Liquor Board in partnership with Department of Agriculture to host community engagement session to raise awareness on the dangers of concoctions.

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) has learnt with dismay about the proliferation of illegal outlets that manufacture and sell concoction at Ntabethemba area in Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality.

Members of the community reportedly use pineapple and other illegal ingredients to manufacture the concoctions, which can adversely affect people’s health in more than one way. For example, these concoctions have negative socio-economic impacts, posing health risks and associated with several illnesses.

In view of the rapid mushrooming of illegal outlets that manufacture and sell concoctions in Ntabethemba, ECLB in partnership with the Department of Agriculture has taken a conscious view to conduct an education and awareness campaign through a community outreach to educate community about the dangers of concoctions.

The Community Outreach will be graced by the presence of the MEC for the Department of Agriculture, Honourable Kotsiwe, who will deliver the keynote address. In addition, various stakeholders, such as Enoch Mgijima Local municipality, traditional leaders, faith-based organisations, government departments, school and liquor traders have been invited to the community outreach.

Therefore, media is invited to the community outreaches that will be organised as follows:

Date : 01 September 2025

Venue: Tendergate Community Hall       

Time: 10h00 – 13h00

Date: 02 September 2025

Venue: Thornhill Community Hall           

Time: 10h00 – 13h00

For inquiries, please contact Mgwebi Msiya at 060 501 6418 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Issued by the Eastern Cape Liquor Board.

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) is a statutory body created in terms of the
Eastern Cape Liquor Act No.10 of 2003 and associated Regulations to regulate the
retail sales and micro–manufacturing of liquor in the Eastern Cape Province.

In accordance with section 35 of the Act, the ECLB holds a register of liquor traders
and micro-manufacturers for the Eastern Cape Province and is available for public the register is available online at www.eclb.co.za.

INVITATION TO THE PROVINCIAL UNDERAGE DRINKING SUMMIT
The MEC for Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Honourable
Nonkqubela Pieters invites all media to the Provincial Underage Drinking Summit that will
be hosted in East London at Abbotsford Christian Centre.
This summit will be a transformative platform, fostering strategic partnerships,
collaboration, and unity in driving underage drinking initiatives in the province.
The current underage drinking challenges experienced by the Eastern Cape communities,
including an emerging abhorrent culture of pens down parties, need concerted efforts by
all stakeholders and role players to ensure that a rigorous and sustained collaborative
approach is adopted to effectively curb underage drinking. The Provincial Underage
Drinking Summit will, therefore, give impetus to the efforts of strengthening and
empowering society to be able to play its role in alleviating underage drinking.
The Summit will offer an exciting opportunity/platform for myriads of stakeholders,
professionals, and practitioners from national and provincial spheres of diverse disciplines
for effective and impactful deliberations on a how to enhance collaborations on the fight
against underage drinking.

The Summit is scheduled to take place as follows:
Date: 28 th June 2025
Time: 08H00 – 18H00
Venue: Abbotsford Christian Centre, East London
For any enquiries, please contact
Mgwebi Msiya at 060 501 6418/ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./
Ncedo Lisani 066 485 0501/ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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