{"id":5585,"date":"2011-12-04T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/no-booze-please-were-the-government\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T14:30:29","slug":"no-booze-please-were-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/04\/no-booze-please-were-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"No booze please, we&#8217;re the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>2011-12-04 16:30<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/etrader.kalahari.net\/referral.asp?linkid=1869&#038;partnerid=9113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kalahari.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul readability=\"-0.90909090909091\">\n<li readability=\"0.90909090909091\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etrader.kalahari.net\/referral.asp?linkid=5&#038;partnerid=9113&#038;sku=33311206\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"ArticleTitle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zuma<\/a>\n<p>But of course Zuma has been at the epicentre of South African politics, and his life has spilt&#8230; Now R153.95<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etrader.kalahari.net\/referral.asp?linkid=5&#038;partnerid=9113&#038;sku=33311206\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"lnkBuyNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buy now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johannesburg &#8211; No more boozing at government Christmas parties, please.<\/p>\n<p>Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is urging government departments to have alcohol-free year-end functions.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on her colleagues to lead by example, Dlamini also wants a ban on alcohol at all government functions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charity begins at home. We also call on all government employees not to drink and drive,&#8221; Dlamini told City Press on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Her department is leading government\u2019s anti-alcohol and substance abuse festive season programme that will be launched in the Western Cape next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>With the theme &#8220;Towards an alcohol &#038; drug-free South Africa&#8221;, Dlamini is calling on government departments &#8211; from the local police station in Springbok to President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s office &#8211; to have a &#8220;dry&#8221; festive season.<\/p>\n<p>This latest drive is part of an inter-ministerial anti-substance abuse programme.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also includes a controversial ban on alcohol advertising that Dlamini said will be attended to in the first quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We want to instil responsibility. Government is asking all South Africans to take a stand against alcohol and substance abuse and to build better communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Setting the example, Dlamini already banned alcohol at functions hosted by her department last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The festive season is supposed to be a happy time. But every year young people get killed or kill someone else when they drink and drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Substance abuse contributes to many of our social ills. It plays a role in the spread of HIV\/Aids through risky sexual behaviour associated with being intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it plays a role in crime and violence against women and children. We have some of the highest foetal alcohol syndrome figures in the world,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini&#8217;s ultimate goal is an all-out ban on drinking and driving, where drivers would have &#8220;zero&#8221; alcohol in their blood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/Politics\/Booze-ban-at-govt-parties-20111203-2\" title=\"No booze please, we're the government\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No booze please, we&#8217;re the government<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 2011-12-04 16:30 kalahari.com Zuma But of course Zuma has been at the epicentre of South African politics, and his life has spilt&#8230; Now R153.95 buy now Johannesburg &#8211; No more boozing at government Christmas parties, please<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No booze please, we&#039;re the government - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/04\/no-booze-please-were-the-government\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No booze please, we&#039;re the government - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"2011-12-04 16:30 kalahari.com Zuma But of course Zuma has been at the epicentre of South African politics, and his life has spilt... 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