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Drinking all day a hazardous pastime for rural grannies in Limpopo

Features, News

“I have been drinking this home brewed beer for over two decades now and it has become a part of my life. I drink it everyday. If I go a day without drinking it my body does not feel right,…

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
December 14, 2023

Ijuba: KZN residents turn to traditional beer to cure ulcers

News, Our Health

Some members of rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal are convinced that a traditional beer known as Ijuba, can cure ulcers by drinking at least two glasses daily to ease the pain. They have taken to social media as well as word…

SandileMbili
June 16, 2022

#LockdownSA: ‘Some of us will die of hunger’ says Limpopo beer brewer

News

In a small village outside Elim, Limpopo, the shockwaves of the national lockdown are being felt by those most vulnerable to capitalism’s precarity.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
April 10, 2020

Doctor sounds health warning bell for villagers

Our Health

Many villagers in rural Vhembe binge on cheap traditional beer, don’t have access to nutritious meals and don’t exercise – a triple combination that can prove lethal.