PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY OP-ED New Gauteng Liquor Board about to be selected – but identity of candidates one of many mysteries 7 min 0 By Maurice Smithers, Shaheda Omar and Rev Tsepo Matubatuba
THE CONVERSATION A drink each day, or just over the weekends? Here’s why alcohol-free days are important 3 min 0 By Megan Lee and Emily Roberts
BOOZY NATION Drinking out the box — South Africa’s favourite tipple is a sweet wine 3 min 0 By Georgina Crouth
TARIFF DISPUTE Liquor multinational Diageo trumps Sars in fight over tiny quantities of vanilla 4 min 4 By Georgina Crouth
FLIGHTMARE Airline passengers behaving worse than ever and liquor is often to blame — IATA 4 min 3 By Georgina Crouth
COMPANY RESULTS Prost! AB InBev’s global results reveal just how well beer builds better business 3 min 0 By Georgina Crouth
THE CONVERSATION OP-ED Profit versus health: 4 ways big global industries make people sick 5 min 0 By Teurai Rwafa
RIGHT TO HEALTH Business as usual: Multinationals take massive profits at the expense of millions of lives 6 min 0 By Adèle Sulcas
BUDGET 2023 Sugar industry thrown a sweetener, but sobering news for sin taxes 4 min 1 By Georgina Crouth
GROUNDUP Iceland youth project aims to dilute drinking and drug abuse in George 5 min 0 By Daniel Steyn
WORLD CANCER DAY OP-ED People’s health or alcohol company profits? How will we address the fact that alcohol causes cancer 4 min 2 By Kristina Sperkova, Labram Musah and Juliet Namukasa
EASTERN CAPE Tavern manager and assistant arrested for selling liquor to minors after three die on Christmas Day 3 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
TONGUE IN CHEEK South Africa dropped the ball and the glass – they can’t even guzzle the Drinking World Cup 4 min 0 By Mr Styles
GROUNDUP DRINK RETHINK Liquor Amendment Bill may be tightened further to combat ballooning alcohol abuse in SA 4 min 5 By Marecia Damons
STREET TALK Drugs don’t work — harrowing tales of addiction and long roads to recovery in South Africa 1 min 0 By Street Talk
HOPS VS GRAPES A battle brewing over the taxes paid by the wine and the beer industry 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
PUBLIC RELATIONS African PR company shuts doors to tobacco, alcohol clients — and thrives 4 min 1 By Georgina Crouth
BHEKISISA Purple menace – South African teens embrace codeine-fuelled DIY high 8 min 3 By Zano Kunene, Linda Pretorius and Joan van Dyk
UNDERAGE DRINKING OP-ED Alcohol in schools — a move in the direction of doom 4 min 0 By Pearl Nicodemus and Katherine Sutherland
TRADING UPDATES Retailers cash in as consumers drown their financial worries in alcohol 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
ENYOBENI TAVERN TRAGEDY SA’s herculean task — fighting the scourge of underage drinking 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis