Case example 5: Botswana

“Bojalwa (sorghum beer) and khadi are both home-brewed beer-like drinks that vary greatly in terms of taste, consistency and alcohol content depending on availability of ingredients and methods of fermentation. Indeed khadi could almost be described as a ‘designer alcohol’ often brewed to the consumer’s needs and tastes. It is made from a base or ‘mash’ that can consist of a combination of any of the following ingredients: wild berries, wild pumpkins, wild roots, oranges, sorghum and maize. Yeast, black tobacco or other unspecified substances are sometimes added to this base to give it ‘strength’, and there have been rumours around Ghanzi of car battery acid also being added.

Source: Molamu & Macdonald (1996)”

Source & © WHO  Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004, p.20