Mourners at the mass funeral for 21 teenagers who died in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy. File photo.
Image: Mark Andrews
BOMIKAZI MDIYA AND EMIHLE MBANGATA – 22 November 2024
Inquest hears premises were flagged for not meeting requirements, complaints about noise and public drinking.
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has admitted that Scenery Park’s Enyobeni Tavern, where 21 young people died in June 2022, was a problem from the get-go.
On Thursday, at the Mdantsane regional court where an inquest into the deaths is in progress, attorney Vuyisile Magqabi, acting for the victims’ parents, cross-examined the liquor board’s head of licensing, Phumlani Tyali…