Search Results for Health Promotion Levy

South Africans support Health Promotion Levy after successful mass media campaign

News

Public backing for government interventions to combat South Africa’s obesity epidemic increased significantly during the period where a national mass media campaign aired, according to Healthy Living Alliance, Health-e News Service, Vital Strategies and other organisations spearheading the campaign.

jamesthabo
July 23, 2020

South Africa’s hunger problem is turning into a major health crisis

Health, News

Food parcels are handed to residents at a food distribution organised by the grassroots charity Hunger Has No Religion, in Westbury, Johannesburg. MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images Irene Labuschagne, Stellenbosch University One in ten South Africans go hungry every day.…

irene-labuschagne
June 6, 2022

Here is why we need more than a sugar tax to reduce unhealthy consumption

Health

The current sugar tax is not enough to help South Africa reach its goals to reduce obesity. Experts say advocacy and implementation are just as important.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
April 23, 2021

To save rural communities from junk food, raise awareness and the sugar tax, says health group

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In rural areas, unhealthy food is cheap and accessible while awareness about the dangers is low. That’s why the Healthy Living Alliance is kicking off a campaign in communities and lobbying government for a sugar tax increase.

Mogale Mojela
March 17, 2021

Health minister supports the reduction of sugar in sweetened beverages

News

Currently, the health promotion levy — implemented in April 2018 — is almost half of the World Health Organisation’s recommendation which research has shown could be more effective.

jamesthabo
November 19, 2019

Sugar, alcohol, tobacco fuels oral health crisis

Our Health

Oral diseases affect 3.5-billion people, yet oral health has been largely ignored by the global health community, according to a new study.

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
July 25, 2019

Ramaphosa announces Zweli Mkhize as the next health minister

News

Aaron Motsoaledi leaves the department after ten years, with the last few years marred by some of the biggest failures in public health.

Pontsho Pilane
May 29, 2019

SA’s first health tax – but will it work?

News

Over the Easter weekend, South Africa became the first African country to impose an excise tax on sugary drinks, a move that has been welcomed by health experts but condemned as ‘nanny-ish’ by free marketeers.

kerrycullinan
April 3, 2018

Act ushers in April sugar levy

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South Africans will start paying tax on sugary drinks from 1 April 2018, according to an Act gazetted yesterday.

kerrycullinan
December 15, 2017

Sugary drinks need higher tax, say activists

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Civil society organisations gathered outside Parliament in Cape Town to demand an increase in the Health Promotion Levy from 11% to 20%, but their demands fell on deaf ears.

jamesthabo
February 27, 2020

HEALA calls for 20% tax on sugary drinks

News

The alliance has been encouraged by public support on proposals for an increase in the Health Promotion Levy (HPL)

Marcia Moyana
February 11, 2020

Consumers react to new sugary drinks tax

News, Our Health

Now that government’s strategy to reduce the sugar intake through the introduction of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages – known as a Health Promotion Levy – consumers in general remain cynical, believing it may not have the desired impact.

Ramatamo
April 4, 2018

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

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Karen Hofman, University of the Witwatersrand and Susan Goldstein, University of the Witwatersrand Death rates in South Africa have declined slightly during the past few years. But the country faces a steady rise in both death and disability caused by…

Health-e News
November 13, 2023

Obesity, stunting on the rise among SA’s children

Health, Health Systems, News, Our Health

Many South African households are unable to feed their children nutritious food which has seen a rise in the number of kids living with obesity or stunted growth. Angelika Grimbeek, Nutrition Programme Manager at HEALA, said malnutrition and the availability…