Sugar tax leaves sour taste
The sugar industry in SA was experiencing serious difficulties even before the government introduced a tax on sugary beverages – and many manufacturers are now merely using artificial sweeteners instead
01 August 2019 - 05:00
You probably don’t know it, but if you pick up a can of Sprite or Iron Brew at a shop, what you’re getting is a whole lot of artificial sweeteners.
This is just one of the rather bizarre unintended consequences of SA’s sugar tax, one year after it was implemented. And the way the industry tells it, the new tax has also contributed to a jobs bloodbath among SA’s 24,000 small-scale sugar farmers...
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