Liquor Amendment News Today

The Attorney-General Siromi Turaga, Siromi Turaga met with nightclub owners and with the Fiji Police Force yesterday.

Underage drinking comes into the spotlight after 21 young people died in a tavern in East London, the youngest being only 13 years old.

Africa Melane speaks to a legal professional at Law For All, Thandekile Plaatjie about the Liquor Amendment Bill.

One expert says the devastation witnessed at Enyobeni tavern could 'force through' a higher legal drinking age for South Africa.

Mandy Weiner speaks to the director of the South African Medical Research Council's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit professor Charles Parry on what we can learn from the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy where twenty-one children died.

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