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The Tot System, also known as the Dop System (after the Afrikaans word 'dop' meaning an alcoholic drink), is a notorious truck system which was used in South African wine farms particularly in the Western Cape. Farm workers would receive payment in the form of money with a daily measure of cheap wine as a fringe benefit.
1 US gallon or 3.785 litres of denatured alcohol in a metal container. Denatured alcohol, also known as methylated spirits, metho, or meths in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and as denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage its recreational consumption.
[1] [2] In Ireland and the UK, the comparable preparation is surgical spirit B.P., which the British Pharmacopoeia defines as 95% methylated spirit, 2.5% castor oil, 2% diethyl phthalate, and 0.5% methyl salicylate. [3] Under its alternative name of "wintergreen oil", methyl salicylate is a common additive to North American rubbing alcohol ...
The result is known as methylated spirit, "meths" (British use) or "metho" (Australian slang). [14] This is not to be confused with "meth", a common abbreviation for methamphetamine and for methadone in Britain and the United States. [citation needed] Despite its poisonous content, denatured alcohol is sometimes consumed as a surrogate alcohol.
South African retailer Woolworths expects profit for the 52 weeks to June 28 to fall more than 20% year on year, hit by a drop in sales owing to measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African multinational retail company that owns Woolworths, a South African luxury department store chain, and Australian retailer Country Road Group. The South African Woolworths business consists of luxury goods , being fashion , home and beauty stores , many of which incorporate a premium food retail ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African retailer Woolworths Holdings resumed dividend payouts on Thursday after its annual profit surged and the sale of some Australian properties helped it to cut ...
3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.