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Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on her government colleagues to lead by example and ban alcohol at all state functions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on her government colleagues to lead by example and ban alcohol at all state functions, City Press reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharity begins at home. We also call on all government employees not to drink and drive,\u201d Dlamini was quoted saying.<\/p>\n

Her call comes as her department leads government’s anti-alcohol and substance abuse festive season programme that is set to be launched in the Western Cape on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The campaign with the theme \u201cTowards an alcohol and drug-free South Africa\u201d is part of an inter-ministerial anti-substance abuse programme.<\/p>\n

It also includes a controversial proposal to ban alcohol advertising that Dlamini said will be addressed in the first quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n

Dlamini, who has already banned alcohol at functions hosted by her department last year, told the newspaper that substance abuse contributed to many social ills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt plays a role in the spread of HIV\/Aids through risky sexual behaviour associated with being intoxicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd 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, she said. – Sapa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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