South Africa’s public health goes down the bottle!!!
Data from the South African Wine Industry Information & Systems (Sawis) shows that South Africans are consuming 13.6% more alcohol than they were a decade ago and “Currently, alcohol is easily available in an estimated 230,000 liquor outlets in South Africa,” the dti (Department of Trade and Industry) said. “According to a report by the Medical Research Council, South Africans consume about 5 billion litres of alcoholic beverages per year.”
The department also cited the World Health Organisation (WHO) which estimated the costs of alcohol abuse in South Africa to be $1.7 billion or (R19.1 billion) 2% of South Africa’s GDP in 2004 keeping in mind we’re now in 2019
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