{"id":202312,"date":"2025-07-13T02:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-delta-raises-alarm-over-high-sugar-prices-urges-review-of-costly-sugar-tax\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T02:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:21:51","slug":"zimbabwe-delta-raises-alarm-over-high-sugar-prices-urges-review-of-costly-sugar-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-delta-raises-alarm-over-high-sugar-prices-urges-review-of-costly-sugar-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Delta Raises Alarm Over High Sugar Prices, Urges Review of Costly Sugar Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Delta Beverages has sounded the alarm over Zimbabwe&#8217;s high local sugar prices, warning Parliament that current pricing and heavy taxation are threatening the viability of beverage manufacturing in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Speaking before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce chaired by Zaka South MP Clemence Chiduwa, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/delta.co.zw\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Delta Beverages<\/a> Finance Director Alex Makamure said local sugar prices&#8211;currently pegged at US$900 per metric ton by Goldstar Sugars and US$890 by Tongaat Huletts&#8211;are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110072.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>Delta Beverages has sounded the alarm over Zimbabwe&#8217;s high local sugar prices, warning Parliament that current pricing and heavy taxation are threatening the viability of beverage manufacturing in the country. Speaking before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce chaired by Zaka South MP Clemence Chiduwa, Delta Beverages Finance Director Alex Makamure said local [&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":[258,256,9582,7967,7929,6184,257,10246,5234,6399,254,11531,8352,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-costly","tag-delta","tag-high","tag-news","tag-prices","tag-raises","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugar","tag-tax","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202312","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=202312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202312\/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=202312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}