Drinking
latest news & developmentsNetanyahu’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
Gender bender: Normalising, moralising and a shot of reality
Peddling booze as the ultimate feminist equaliser is a dangerous marketing ploy
Drunks make themselves at home
Are parents are setting a bad example by letting their children see them in a drunken state?
Drinking their way to the top
Some bosses in China demand that their employees consume alcohol on the job.
Local is liquor
Claire Hu recommends a Christmas drinking list with a uniquely South African flavour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A nip to numb the pain
Clinical psychologist Dr Lou-Marie Kruger says South Africans drink to self-medicate.
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.
The health hangover
Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.
Tippling point
South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.
The Holy Grail of drinking
The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.