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.
Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.
South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.
The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.
Within half an hour of having a drink, alcohol molecules spread into all tissues of a human body.
Sophiatown is an ironically named bar lounge popular with Johannesburg’s ever-expanding hip set.
Soccer players selected for the national team should be directly contracted by the South African Football Association, the African National Congress (ANC) said on Thursday. This would allow coach Carlos Alberto Parreira to work full-time for two years in preparing a winning team for 2010.