The issue of alcohol is likely to be a sensitive subject in the run-up to the World Cup in four years’ time
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Calculating the price of South Africa’s favourite pastime is a bit of a shocker when you add up the duty taxes on chicken, wheat, alcohol and steel.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced that taxes on wine, beer, spirits and cigarettes would continue to rise above the rate of inflation.
