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Coca-Cola bottles, cans and PET soft drink packaging illustrating financial pressure from Zimbabwe’s sugar tax on beverage companies.
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Delta’s Contribution to Sugar Tax Funding Cancer Care Weighs on Operations

Michael Gwarisa

Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe’s sugar tax, introduced in 2024 to help finance cancer drugs, equipment and other health interventions, is increasingly becoming a major financial burden for beverage giant Delta Corporation, which says it and its associate Schweppes Zimbabwe are absorbing millions of dollars in costs to keep soft drinks affordable. The levy, introduced by government

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