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/ 23 December 2005

The bar route

Nearly every <i>dorp</i>, town and suburb in South Africa boasts a pub, many of which have contributed to the national character. Pat Hopkins sample a few South African pubs that have contributed to our national character.

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/ 14 September 2004

Shantytown shebeen

The only thing I miss of the old South Africa is the raucous shebeen life that gave such colour to drab townships. "We all ask for more of the shebeen life of yesterday," lamented Jacky Heyns in <i>Drum</i> in December 1993. "Today all South Africa’s drinkers are relegated to humdrum legitimate liquor lounges …The only way to save South Africa is to reintroduce prohibition!"