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Sugar tax harming Zimbabweâ€™s beverage industry

Zimbabweâ€™s largest business lobby, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), has raised concerns that the countryâ€™s sugar content surtax on beverages is crippling local manufacturers and undermining competitiveness, urging the go…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's BMA in fresh drive to ditch sugar tax

The Beverage Makers Association (BMA) has renewed calls for the complete removal of Zimbabwe's Sugar Tax, warning that the levy threatens jobs, reduces formal manufacturers' tax contributions, and erodes competitiveness in the region.Intro…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:42hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter

Inmates trade sugar, porridge for weed

GWANDA - Two serving prison inmates, Hloniphani Mkwananzi (42) and Tiisetse Ngulube, have been sentenced to 15 months in prison for trading food items received from relatives in exchange for cannabis.The items included four packets of suga…

Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 16:01hrs | 561 | by Gideon Madzikatidze

Starafrica feels the pinch of sugar tax

Local sugar producer Starafrica Corporation says it is grappling with weak demand for industrial sugar, with the government-imposed sugar tax on beverages negatively affecting some of its key customers.In 2024, the Zimbabwean government in…

Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 12:33hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter

Khupe demands Ministerial statement on use of US$38m sugar tax

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Dr Thokozani Khupe has called on the Ministry of Finance to urgently deliver a ministerial statement detailing how the US$38 million raised from the sugar tax has been used, amid growing conce…

Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 17:17hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Health Ministry details use of sugar tax revenue

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has broken its silence on the use of sugar tax revenues, providing an official account of funds received from the Treasury and how they have been allocated towards cancer treatment equipment procuremen…

Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:12hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe turns to sugar, fast foods, and booze for revenue

Zimbabwe's Treasury is relying heavily on taxes imposed on sugar, fast food, and alcoholic beverages to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars lost following sharp cuts in official development assistance (ODA), it has emerged.In the 2025 N…

Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:02hrs | 422 | by `

Zimbabwe doctors turn screws on govt

Human rights doctors have intensified their call for transparency from the Zimbabwean government regarding the use of revenue generated from the sugar tax. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has pressed authoritie…

Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:08hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter

'Sugar daddies' preying on university, college students in Zimbabwe

Legislators in Zimbabwe have raised concerns over the vulnerability of female university and college students to exploitation by older men, commonly known as "sugar daddies," due to economic hardships forcing them into prostitution. During…

Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:10hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter

Tribalist presenter blames colonial era abuse on King Lobengula 'who loved sugar' live on TV

During last week's broadcast of Good Morning Zimbabwe (GMZ), ZBC Presenter Victoria Manase attributed colonial-era abuses by whites on black people to Ndebele King Lobengula from the 1800s, suggesting that he had been influenced by sugar. …

Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 06:02hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Govt seeks to set up sugar mill

The government is preparing to establish a new sugar milling company in the Lowveld region after its unsuccessful attempt to purchase Tongaat Hulett, one of the country's major sugar estates. Tongaat Hulett, based in South Africa, faced fi…

Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe sugar estates to be sold to Tanzania's Kagera Sugar

South Africa's Tongaat Hulett is to sell its sugar estates, including those in Zimbabwe, to Kagera Sugar, one of East Africa's largest sugar producers.This is part of a plan to rescue Tongaat Hulett group, which has struggled for survival …

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 18:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Farmers defend raw sugar price increase

Small-scale sugarcane farmers, who supply 45 percent of raw sugar in Zimbabwe, have defended the new price of the commodity after Gold Star suspended production at its refinery in Harare this week citing high prices and unfavourable tradin…

Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gold Star Sugars shuts Harare refinery in Tongaat Hulett price row

Gold Star, a subsidiary of ZSE-listed StarAfrica, has temporarily closed its Harare refinery and placed employees on indefinite leave, citing a sharp increase in raw sugar prices by its supplier Tongaat Hulett.Gold Star commercial executiv…

Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 19:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF activists grab sugar plantation from white farmer

Two Zanu-PF activists have seized a sugar plantation belonging to a white commercial farmer in Mwenezi, Masvingo province, leaving the owners and scores of workers and their children homeless.Webster Cuthbert Muzara and Emmanuel Mandipa Ch…

Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Sugar shortage hits Zimbabwe

SOME parts of the country such as the capital, Harare, are experiencing shortages of sugar supplies at retail shops with the informal sector struggling to restock.A snap survey yesterday confirmed that sugar was in short supply at most she…

Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Starafrica halts sugar exports

ONE of Zimbabwe's biggest sugar producers has shelved exports in response to steep local demand in the past few months, which has outstripped supply.The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed starafricacorporation said refined white sugar had been…

Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Kenya destroys Zimbabwean sugar worth more than US$12 million

About 20 000 tonnes of condemned brown sugar worth about US$12,9 million which was sourced from Zimbabwe three years ago is set to be destroyed by Kenyan authorities today, a newspaper in the East African country reported.The Nation, a Ken…

Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 20:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Sugar industry workers demand wage review

SUGAR industry employees are demanding an urgent National Employment Council (NEC) meeting to come up with new salary scales.The Zimbabwe Sugar Milling Allied Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (ZSMAWUZ) has since written to Clemence Muparutsa, th…

Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Tongaat gazettes retail sugar prices

Tongaat Hulett has gazetted recommended retail sugar prices for the commodity which is being overpriced. The prices for brown sugar are $4,99 for 1kg, $9,98 for 2kg, $24,95 for 5kg and $49,90 for 10kg. White sugar recommended prices are $5…

Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

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