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South Africa's booze church fetes easing of virus controls

Gabola Church was founded three years ago by Tsietsi Makiti, right, to embrace people who would ordinarily be rejected by conventional churches that frown on imbibers. [AFP]

Bottles of their favourite alcoholic beverages in hand, gleeful worshippers walked into a thatched-roof hall and sat down to listen to a Sunday sermon.

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