OPINION | SA’s alcohol ban: What we can learn from past alcohol prohibitions
Back in the 1920s, Al Capone was a notorious gangster and bootlegger who ran the streets of Chicago in the US
. He rose from being a street thug to becoming an underworld mob boss when he took advantage of the era of alcohol prohibition in the US in the 1920s and 1930s when the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcohol was outlawed. Capone made tons of money smuggling illegally imported alcohol into the US, in defiance of the ban, wresting control of the lucrative illicit market. He was, at the height of his reign and terror, named America’s most wanted gangster by the federal government.exclusive journalism and features
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