HEALA: Food industry behaviour is anti-poor
PepsiCo’s announcement that it’s going to buy Pioneer Foods shows that South Africa is very far from winning the war on improving access to healthier foods for poor people.
Tongaat Hulett bosses must ‘pay back the money’
The financial scandal of South Africa’s largest sugar producer hurts its blue-collar employees, who are already marginalised and at risk of non-communicable diseases, the most.
HEALA: Act against Big Food tactics that target kids
As the South African commemorates Child Protection Week activists call for policy framework that protects children from harmful marketing by Big Food industry.
Food justice is a pipe dream without tackling industry
The lack of access to healthy food is a cause and a symptom of South Africa’s inequalities which further proves the fight for affordable nutritious food is a social justice issue.
The struggle for hypertension in South Africa
Tackling hypertension nationally and globally will require innovative thinking that looks at the condition as a socio-economic and systemic issue.