The government will be reconsidering and reflecting on the country’s harmful relationship with alcohol, which has become apparent during booze sales bans.
There are some potentially massive changes afoot in South Africa’s alcohol legislation, changes that could have some very far-reaching consequences.
In the US, you can drive a car, go to war and get married, divorced and re-married before you can legally have a beer, at the age of 21. But there may be some merit in that. Two in three South Africans polled on the issue think so, anyway.