one and a half metres distance<\/strong> from other drivers and customers when making deliveries.<\/p>\nCourier and delivery service personnel are also prohibited from entering the home of a customer if such customer and any other residents within the immediate vicinity are not wearing a cloth face mask or a homemade item that covers the nose and mouth.<\/p>\n
Rules for retailers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nRetailers are currently permitted to sell all goods online, with the exception of alcohol and other prohibited goods.<\/p>\n
However, the regulations state that they should give prominence to those goods which are manufactured in South Africa to ‘limit the social and economic hardship caused by the pandemic on
\nlocal industries and enable consumer choice to support local producers’.<\/p>\n
Additional requirements include:<\/p>\n
\n- Retailers must provide for as many payment options as possible for consumers, that are based on reducing risks of transmission, and enabling poorer consumers to access delivery services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- When packaging goods, retailers must provide written guidelines for customers on how to safely disinfect their goods before use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Retailers must put in place collection protocols to ensure that adequate social distancing is maintained by courier or delivery service personnel when collecting goods from a warehouse or depot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- All goods must be sanitised, in line with the guidelines published by the National Department of Health, before leaving the warehouse or depot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n