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D 107152-12 7386-02 Shebeen. Obligatory Credit - CAMERA PRESS / Ernest Cole. HIGHER FEES APPLY. Under apartheid rule, black Africans were forbidden to enter bars and pubs and therefore resorted to brewing their own alcohol in the townships and selling at shebeens, illegal bars. PICTURED: Archive image of a man almost comatose from drinking illegal alcohol at a shebeen. Some brews, like barbeton, skokiaan and taili have been declared as poisonous, pictured in 1963. D 107152-12 7386-02 Shebeen. Obligatory Credit - CAMERA PRESS / Ernest Cole. Under apartheid rule, black Africans were forbidden to enter bars and pubs and therefore resorted to brewing their own alcohol in the townships and selling at shebeens, illegal bars. PICTURED: Archive image of a man almost comatose from drinking illegal alcohol at a shebeen. Some brews, like barbeton, skokiaan and taili have been declared as poisonous, pictured in 1963. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/Ernest Cole)