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When South Africa began easing its coronavirus lockdown in May, it allowed religious worshippers to gather in groups of up to 50, but maintained a ban on people assembling to drink alcohol. For this church, the regulations are a problem.

That's a problem for the "Gabola" church -- the name means 'drinking' in the local Tswana language -- for whom a tipple is an integral part of their religious worship.

"They can arrest us until Jesus comes back," said Makiti, wearing a bishop's mitre with a miniature bottle of spirits hanging off it. On Sunday worshippers met in a rubbish-strewn field in Evaton, south of Johannesburg. As the service started, the 'clergy' blessed some beer bottles in prayer.

 

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