Fees Must Fall protests drove medical students to drink. Literally. This is according to a study at the University of the Free State (UFS).

A third of trainee doctors started drinking more as protests reached their height in 2016, the study found, and three-quarters said their academic performance suffered.

“There was a tendency towards poorer performance and more failures the next year,” said researchers, who reported their findings in the July edition of the South African Medical Journal (http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12644/8893)...