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Healthcare

Sugary drinks are a killer: a 20% tax would save lives and rands in South Africa

Susan Goldstein 4 Apr 2025

Medshield shares how nutrition shapes your health and happiness

Nutrition

Medshield shares how nutrition shapes your health and happiness

Issued by Stone 1 Apr 2025

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Healthcare

#World Obesity Day: Genetics play a role, but lifestyle is key, say experts

3 Mar 2025

Healthcare

Is the sugar industry lying to us?

16 Oct 2024

Let's talk about SA women and obesity

Nutrition

Let's talk about SA women and obesity

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 4 Mar 2024

Noncommunicable diseases

#BudgetSpeech2024: Heala condemns Finance Minister's failure to increase Health Promotion Levy

22 Feb 2024

Noncommunicable diseases

Diabetes is South Africa's second biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help

6 Nov 2023

Healthy habits your dentist wishes you would follow

Dentistry

Healthy habits your dentist wishes you would follow

Issued by Intercare 2 Oct 2023

FMCG

Sales of soft drinks surge in South Africa's beverage industry

14 Jun 2023

Image source: Sora Shimazaki from

Legislation & Regulation

Have your say on Treasury, Sars draft Bills

1 Aug 2022

Why every South African needs to eat more vegetables and fruit every day

Nutrition

Why every South African needs to eat more vegetables and fruit every day

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 7 Oct 2021

Noncommunicable diseases

Zambia must find a way to balance the economy and public health in tax policy

Mulenga Mary Mukanu 23 Apr 2021

$Photo by Peter Kovalev\TASS via Getty Images$

Taxation & Regulation

New research shows South Africa's levy on sugar-sweetened drinks is having an impact

Karen Hofman 12 Apr 2021

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

FMCG

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

Gary Sacks, Eric Crosbie and Melissa Mialon 30 Jul 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

Health & Social Welfare

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

Is sugar tax really a health measure or a tax income stream?

Taxation & Regulation

Is sugar tax really a health measure or a tax income stream?

18 Feb 2019

Advertising

Heala calls on Coca-Cola to stop advertising at schools

17 Oct 2018

What will Mboweni talk about in the MTBPS?

Taxation & Regulation

What will Mboweni talk about in the MTBPS?

Nicci Botha 16 Oct 2018

FairPlay demands enquiry into SA sugar tariff debacle

Import/Export

FairPlay demands enquiry into SA sugar tariff debacle

16 Jul 2018

Dilutables beverage category declines in volume in 2017

FMCG

Dilutables beverage category declines in volume in 2017

21 May 2018

Tertius Troost, tax consultant at Mazars

Noncommunicable diseases

The not-so-sweet consequences of sugar tax

3 May 2018

#Budget2018: Five things you'll pay more for in 2018

Budget Speech

#Budget2018: Five things you'll pay more for in 2018

22 Feb 2018

Sars to hold sugar tax roadshows in March

Tax Law

Sars to hold sugar tax roadshows in March

13 Feb 2018

Putting money where the mouth is - sugar, public health and the advertising industry

Noncommunicable diseases

Putting money where the mouth is - sugar, public health and the advertising industry

Deborah Minors 18 Jan 2018

Five major trends in South Africa's agro-food system

Trends

Five major trends in South Africa's agro-food system

John Purchase 12 Jan 2018

Sugar tax and its bitter economic aftertaste

Taxation & Regulation

Sugar tax and its bitter economic aftertaste

Joon Chong and Wesley Grimm 15 Dec 2017

National Assembly approves sugar tax

Tax Law

National Assembly approves sugar tax

22 Nov 2017

Bills on 'sugar tax' and tax exemption adopted in Parliament

Taxation & Regulation

Bills on 'sugar tax' and tax exemption adopted in Parliament

Linda Ensor 10 Nov 2017

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Public Health

Public backs tax on sugary drinks and junk food

4 Sep 2017

Treasury rejects claims of calamitous job losses from sugar tax

Taxation & Regulation

Treasury rejects claims of calamitous job losses from sugar tax

Linda Ensor 22 Jun 2017

BevSA wants more time on sugar tax

Public Health

BevSA wants more time on sugar tax

4 Apr 2017

Agribusiness

The Sugar Tax: implications for the cane industry, obesity and consumer behaviour

Hamlet Hlomendlini 8 Mar 2017

Taxation & Regulation

Sugar tax and asset disclosures could add R1bn to budget revenue

3 Mar 2017

World Economic Forum via

Agriculture

The 2017 Budget Speech from an agribusiness perspective

23 Feb 2017

Sugar tax must come with an education programme

Public Health

Sugar tax must come with an education programme

21 Feb 2017

Regulatory

Drinks makers release study to challenge planned sugar tax

Tamar Kahn 7 Dec 2016

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Nutrition

Potential health benefit of taxing sugared drinks is overstated, economist says

Tamar Kahn 7 Dec 2016

American cities also looking at SSB tax

Nutrition

American cities also looking at SSB tax

1 Nov 2016

Clover to launch low-sugar Tropika

FMCG

Clover to launch low-sugar Tropika

14 Sep 2016

Ban on big fizzy drinks in NY falls flat

Corporate & Commercial Law

Ban on big fizzy drinks in NY falls flat

1 Aug 2013