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Drinking

Netanyahu’s son under fire after ‘strip club’ tape
Article
/ 9 January 2018

Netanyahu’s son under fire after ‘strip club’ tape

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has been caught on tape seemingly drunk outside a strip club talking about a key natural gas deal

By Staff Reporter
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Analysis
/ 14 July 2017

Gender bender: Normalising, moralising and a shot of reality

Peddling booze as the ultimate feminist equaliser is a dangerous marketing ploy

By Kiri Rupiah
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Article
/ 1 November 2013

Drunks make themselves at home

Are parents are setting a bad example by letting their children see them in a drunken state?

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 29 August 2011

Drinking their way to the top

Some bosses in China demand that their employees consume alcohol on the job.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 16 December 2010

Local is liquor

Claire Hu recommends a Christmas drinking
list with a uniquely South African flavour.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 6 October 2010

Study shows mother’s light drinking does not harm baby

Women who have one or two alcoholic drinks a week during pregnancy do not harm their children’s behavioural or intellectual development.

By Kate Kelland
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Article
/ 21 December 2008

Hangover? Take two eels and call me in the morning

Whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness and dry mouth.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 16 September 2008

Two litres of beer and hit the road, says premier

Bavaria’s embattled premier found himself in trouble on Tuesday after saying that driving is OK after two litres of beer at Germany’s Oktoberfest.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 13 August 2008

Cut back drivers’ alcohol limit, says AA

South Africa’s current blood-alcohol concentration limit of 0,05% should be lowered to 0,02% for all drivers, says the Automobile Association.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

A love of beer starts at home

South Africans probably consume almost as much sorghum beer as they do lager, and roughly two-thirds of the traditional African beer is homebrewed.

By Belinda Beresford
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

A nip to numb the pain

Clinical psychologist Dr Lou-Marie Kruger says South Africans drink to self-medicate.

By Staff Reporter and Pearlie Joubert Author
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

A culture of drunken driving

Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans — perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement — do it every day.

By Surika Van Schalkwyk
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

The health hangover

Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.

By Belinda Beresford
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

Tippling point

South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.

By Zahira Kharsany and Thembelihle Tshabalala
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

The Holy Grail of drinking

The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.

By Zahira Kharsany and Thembelihle Tshabalala
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Article
/ 13 March 2008

Alcohol and the body: What it really does

Within half an hour of having a drink, alcohol molecules spread into all tissues of a human body.

By Belinda Beresford

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