The African National Congress Youth League calls for a ban on alcohol advertising.
South Africans probably consume almost as much sorghum beer as they do lager, and roughly two-thirds of the traditional African beer is homebrewed.
The rise in production cost of grains such as wheat and maize was ”mind boggling”, Grain SA said on Thursday. The latest cost budgets for the production of wheat due to be planted in the coming months indicate that the variable cost component increased on average by 63%,” said Grain SA chairperson Neels Ferreira.
Power failures have had a significant impact on mining production, the Chamber of Mines of South Africa said on Thursday. The chamber said the statistics released by Statistics South Africa on Thursday showed a 10,7% year-on-year drop in the volume of mining for January.
A confession by a gangster that he took part in the raid in which historian David Rattray was murdered was ruled as admissible evidence against him in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Sibonele Xolani Mpanza (28) had contested the confession.
Clinical psychologist Dr Lou-Marie Kruger says South Africans drink to self-medicate.
Stocks tumbled on Thursday as investors recoiled following a further decline in the dollar, spikes in gold and oil prices and a warning that a Carlyle Group fund is near collapse. The major indexes each lost more than 1%; the Dow Jones industrial average at times fell more than 200 points.
Katzy’s is a cosmopolitan cigar lounge in The Firs shopping mall, Rosebank, just table-hopping distance from its big brother, The Grillhouse.
"About half the pupils in my class suffer in some way or another from the effects of alcohol abuse by their parents and people around them."
Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans — perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement — do it every day.