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Drinking lessons to be learned for tertiary education
Karel
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03 Jul, 2015

It’s 1.30am on a Friday. The clubs on Melville’s 7th Street have 30 minutes before statutory sound-kill and another phuza-Thursday is coming to an end. Groups of young drunk people hover around their ice buckets with still lots of unopened beers and ciders.

Proposed alcohol laws, repetition of old ones
Karel
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30 Jun, 2015

There is fear among liquor traders and other stakeholders that the recent published Norms and Standards by the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI) to regulate the consumption and the sale of liquor is nothing but the repetition of old apartheid laws that won’t have an impact to transform the industry.

Sober up: If the state doesn’t do it, who will?
Fikile
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02 Jun, 2015

The Minister of Trade and Industry in South Africa recently announced proposed new alcohol legislation which has the industry in a furore. Amid acusations of being a South Africa being a nanny state, SAAPA Chairperson Mphonyane Mofokeng asks 'If the state doesn't do it, who will? This article was written for and published by City Press

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