{"id":185981,"date":"2024-12-06T01:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rights-doctors-corner-finance-minister-over-sugar-tax\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T01:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:07:37","slug":"zimbabwe-rights-doctors-corner-finance-minister-over-sugar-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rights-doctors-corner-finance-minister-over-sugar-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Rights Doctors Corner Finance Minister Over Sugar Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has put Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to task, demanding finer details on the government&#8217;s sugar tax revenue and its subsequent allocation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a letter dated November 21, 2024, ZADHR, represented by attorney Precious Chakasikwa from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the doctors demanded that Ncube should disclose the total amount collected from the special surtax on the sugar content of beverages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This surtax was enacted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412050098.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has put Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to task, demanding finer details on the government&#8217;s sugar tax revenue and its subsequent allocation. In a letter dated November 21, 2024, ZADHR, represented by attorney Precious Chakasikwa from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), the doctors demanded that Ncube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,34768,6827,7829,5941,257,5100,254,11531,8352,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corner","tag-doctors","tag-finance","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugar","tag-tax","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}