{"id":207751,"date":"2026-02-01T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207751"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:22:31","slug":"2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207751","title":{"rendered":"2025 figures show South Africans spent R150 billion on alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s annual alcohol bill has been placed at a staggering R150 billion, translating to an average of about R414 million spent every single day according to figures highlighted in a News24 broadcast on 30 December 2025. The report shed light on the scale of alcohol consumption in the country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/2025\/12\/31\/2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s annual alcohol bill has been placed at a staggering R150 billion, translating to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol-300x185.jpg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol.jpg",600,370,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/207751-2025-figures-show-south-africans-spent-r150-billion-on-alcohol-590x370.jpg",590,370,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}