Does South Africa have a drinking problem?

Does SA have a drinking problem

  • Yes

    Votes: 179 64.2%

  • No

    Votes: 89 31.9%

  • Other (I may suffer from aboulomania)

    Votes: 11 3.9%
  • Total voters
    279
The problem in RSA is the poverty and people drinking to escape their existence for a little time then the downward circle starts.
 
Don't come to the other side of the line, stay on your side and mind you own opinoin. Ne.
 
thestaggy said:
South Africa has a society problem, which leads to greater instances of drug and alcohol abuse.
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this, also when your depressed about not having a job,
live in a 2X4 meter shack and steal to survive,

what else is there to do when you've stolen enough,
go to church? not likely.
 
Voted "other" because the excessive drinking is a symptom of other problems:

Drink, of course, was what we all turned to, some more, some less. Don't ask how we got the money for it. When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle, but if it's to get stinking drunk and forget -- you do. Fishing tackle? Hunting guns? Snapshot cameras? Hobbies? There wasn't any 'amusement allowance' for anybody. 'Amusement' was the first thing they dropped. Aren't you always supposed to be ashamed to object when anybody asks you to give up anything, if it's something that gave you pleasure? Even our 'tobacco allowance' was cut to where we got two packs of cigarettes a month -- and this, they told us, was because the money had to go into the babies' milk fund. Babies was the only item of production that didn't fall, but rose and kept on rising -- because people had nothing else to do, I guess, and because they didn't have to care, the baby wasn't their burden, it was 'the family's'. In fact, the best chance you had of getting a raise and breathing easier for a while was a 'baby allowance'. Either that, or a major disease.
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The ANC and their socialism have decided that "the people" need things like the NHI, SAA, minimum wage, labour laws, BEE, AA more than they need their freedom. Alcohol is simply a means that people have available that they can use to escape the socialist utopia the ANC are so thoughtfully providing for everyone.
 
Two hands... Only one mouth, I would have to say YES, that is a problem.
 
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