MP wants alcohol ads banned

15 Jul 2014

When MPs discussed the Report on Alcohol Abuse in Namibia late last week, Republican Party MP, Clara Gowases, called for a ban on the advertising of alcoholic beverages, reports Mathias Haufiku on New Era.

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New Era: MP calls for ban on alcohol adverts... According to the report, apart from her being worried that the availability of alcohol results in children experimenting with alcohol at an early age, Gowases reminded MPs about international alcohol indexes, which suggest Namibia ranks fifth in alcohol consumption on the African continent.
"We forget that what appears in the various indexes are not individual names, but a collective name. For instance, the Namibian Consumer Price Index released last year just said Namibians drink more. It is a shame that we even drink more than countries like Nigeria which has a population of over 178 million people and South Africa which has more than 52 million people," said Gowases.

View the World Health Organisation's infographic on alcohol consumption in Namibia.