Soul City held a series of very successful and well represented public dialogues and training workshops around alcohol in the five provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal, Eastern Cape and Free State.
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Michael Motsoeneng-Bill discusses the raising of the legal age for drinking from 18 years old to 21.
Soul City embarked on an extensive Tuberculosis formative research process. This involved consultations with key stakeholders; commissioning a literature review as well as having a wide range of focus groups.
It’s not easy but parents must do it
George Herald - 11 June 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.
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.
The New Age - 26 June 2015