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Dangers of getting drunk are far too many

Can Themba, one of pioneering African journalists of Apartheid South Africa and a remarkable columnist, captured nicely the perils of being a drinking man in the Soweto of his day.

They did not necessarily lurk in its crime-infested streets nor come in the form of sjabok-wielding white police officers.

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