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HEALA has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in March 2021. The social media accounts linked to from HEALA are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • Email • X Besides social media accounts, HEALA has populated their site with: • The double-duty of fighting child stunting, obesity and overweight • Watchdog clears Coca-Cola deal in SA, wants assurances on JSE listing and jobs | News24 • UWC: Affordability shapes SA people's food choices • Underweight children double at Gauteng low-resource schools, UJ study finds • Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams • SB Tax Position Paper • Global Health Advocacy Incubator - Designing Sweetened Beverage Taxes… • SAHRC food inquiry — some ministers engage, most retailers evade • Cancer cases expected to soar worldwide, WHO report finds | Global health | The Guardian • Our Children Are Telling Us Something About Ultra-processed Food • What's in your cupboard? - Heala • Why public health advocacy should not be silenced • Diabetes: The Epidemic South Africa Can’t Track • How SA’s new food labelling laws will impact food producers - Food For Mzansi • Will new black warning labels on food save lives or hurt farming? - Food For Mzansi • World Hunger Day Campaign – letter to UAH members and supporters - Union Against Hunger • How Britain’s junk food ad ban could spark healthier choices in SA’s fight against obesity | News24 • Front-of-Pack Warning Label Factsheet • Diabetes in Crisis: Inside the Johannesburg Declaration Media Breakfast | HEALA & Diabetes Alliance • Diabetes no longer ‘silent epidemic’, coalition calls for urgent national response • amandla.mobi submission SA Human Rights Commission Food Inquiry • The Growing Need for Diabetes Educators in South Africa — A Personal Reflection From the Frontline • Seminar Series: Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal - Campaigns You Need To Know About! • SA retail giants fall short on access to healthy food: report • Obesity rates increase in Africa as urbanisation and diet changes take hold - South Africa Policy Wire • Reality bites: SA retail giants fall short on access to healthy food - Daily Maverick • bit.ly • Budget Speech 2026: National Treasury must increase the HPL to 20%, in line with WHO recommendations • Nourished Truth Operational Toolkit • Launch of the Nourished Truth Operational Toolkit – A Guide to Protecting Women’s Breastfeeding Choices from Commercial Influence • Our advertising regulator is funded by the food and beverage industry. Should it be allowed to block ads on sugar's health risks? - Bhekisisa • SONA 2026: Addressing the urgent need for action against child stunting and malnutrition • Justice Served! Episode 1: Angelika Grimbeek on the Health Promotion Levy & Public Health • HEALA CEO Nzama Mbalati on The Honest Truth | HPL, Obesity & Holding Big Food Accountable • Why the Health Promotion Levy Can’t Wait | Zukiswa Zimela on Cape Talk Soundcloud • Why South Africa Needs Warning Labels on Ultra-Processed Foods | eTV with Angelika Grimbeek • Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study | Global development | The Guardian • ‘Diabetes is not a death sentence’: Pitso Molemane on stigmas, myths holding men back | News24 • ‘Diabetes is not a death sentence’: Pitso Molemane on stigmas, myths holding men back • Why South Africa Must Increase the Health Promotion Levy to 20% | CEO Nzama Mbalati on eNCA • The association between the health promotion levy and employment in South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis | BMC Nutrition | Springer Nature Link • Countries must raise taxes on sugary drinks and alcohol to curb preventable disease, WHO says | Euronews • PROGRAMME MANAGER VACANCY (12 months renewable contract) - Heala • Ultra-processed food: from first tastes to lifelong habits - The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health • Ultra-processed Foods and Children: State-of-the-art review | Child Nutrition and Development • Calls for Nestlé to remove sugar from baby foods | GroundUp • Call on Finance Minister and Deputies to increase and expand Sugary Drinks Tax | Awethu.mobi • South African Reportage: “The Nestlé birds were set in our minds” • “The Nestlé birds were set in our minds” • Africa’s baby food sugar scandal • Glaring omission in Godongwana’s mid-term budget policy statement. - Heala • The passage and implementation of a Health Promotion Levy in South Africa as a case study of fair financing procedures - PMC • Where food is a right and good nutrition a luxury, millions in SA are stunted – Elitsha • Food security protesters snubbed by Ramaphosa and Madonsela at Justice Summit • MEMORANDUM TO : Honourable Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa • Hunger is a crime in SA! Who are the criminals? • How Big Food’s corporate ambition is driving child overweight globally • Hunger crisis in SA: From constitutional rights to empty plates • This #WorldFoodDay, join the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and Union Against Hunger (UAH) for an important discussion on The Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in South Africa. • This heritage month HEALA is shining the spotlight on food sovereignty - Heala • Gauteng Health Department Urges Early Reporting of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children to Prevent Complications | Central News South Africa • How sugar addiction is driving South Africa's obesity crisis - Trending Online • 2025 Diabetes Summit – Diabetes Alliance • Hidden sugar traps and how to avoid them | George Herald • It’s time to act: South Africans have a right to know what’s in their food • Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing children - 2025 Child Nutrition Report Unicef • Obesity in children: Here's where SA is going wrong | The Citizen • Liqui Fruit ordered to drop ‘Nothing But Fruit’ claim | News24 • Webinar Registration - Zoom: Addressing all forms of malnutrition through the promotion of sustainable, safe and healthy diets: Regional webinar series on strengthening policy action to transform food systems for health in Africa • Red Bull can't give kids wings - High caffeine energy drinks such as Red Bull will be banned for sale to youths under 16 • Big Food’s marketing to children under scrutiny as calls for clear food labels grow | Mossel Bay Advertiser • Experts call for mandatory warning labels to combat South Africa's childhood obesity • Four billion reasons to prioritise overweight and obesity – or leave half the world behind • Press Release: HEALA embarks on roadshows to highlight the importance Front-of-Packaging Labelling on packaged foods • Diabetes is a disease that thrives on inequity • South Africa's Diet-Related Disease Crisis: 370 Daily Deaths and Rising | Claude • Hypertension in South Africa: a growing epidemic and evolving treatment paradigms • South Africa's most addictive online impulse buys, revealed • Don’t delay strong warning label regulations | Awethu.mobi • Take the lead: Shape your child’s lifestyle as SA faces a growing obesity crisis | News24 • Obesity crisis: Children as young as 5 developing ‘middle-age’ diseases | News24 • Why 100% fruit juice should come with a sugar warning label - Bhekisisa • Rising food prices jeopardise school nutrition programme for millions of learners • WHO calls for increase in health taxes to save lives | News24 • Sugary drinks, processed foods, alcohol and tobacco are big killers: Why the G20 should add its weight to health taxes • The UK government wants to expand the sugar tax to milkshakes and plant-based drinks – here’s what you need to know • Webinar - Beyond Symptoms: A Holistic Approach to Health & Food Systems • Why 100% fruit juice should come with a sugar warning label • Norway bans marketing of unhealthy food and drinks to children • Impact Assessment Title: Introducing a 2100-0530 watershed on TV and online restriction for paid advertising of food and drink that are High in Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) products • Obesity and overweight - and article • Sweet lies, bitter truth: Unmasking junk food marketing in South Africa | Conviction • South Africa’s children are being targeted by hidden dangers in the food aisle • Terms of Reference TOR: Communications Strategy – Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) • QuickView :: Gate5 • Shoprite, bring your food prices down! | Awethu.mobi • UAH Activists Whatsapp Group • Radio 786 Focus on malnutrition with Dr Petronell Kruger - Programmes Manager, Youtube • Radio 786 Interview: Focus on malnutrition with Healthy Living Alliance with Dr Petronell Kruger, SOundcloud • Malnutrition ‘tragedy’: 155 SA children have died this year alone • SPOTLIGHT ON WORLD HYPERTENSION DAY: • Marketing unhealthy food as good for kids is fuelling obesity in SA: how to curb it • Dumping food should be illegal in the fight to end hunger in SA • Episode 5 - How can the Health Promotion Levy support and expand social protection? • SPOTLIGHT ON WORLD HYPERTENSION DAY: THE OVERLOOKED LINK BETWEEN MENOPAUSE AND WOMEN'S BLOOD PRESSURE RISK - Baby's and Beyond • Godongwana forced to scrap VAT hike. Tell him to increase Sugary Drinks Tax | Awethu.mobi • Challenges encountered in a South African school nutrition programme - PMC • Modelling the potential impact of a tax on fruit juice in South Africa: implications for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes and health financing | BMC Nutrition | Full Text • Urgently find solutions for problems in school nutrition programme • Experts sounding the alarm about excessive sugar intake | Parys Gazette • How childhood diet may lead to a rise in bowel cancer among young adults • Milkshakes and lattes could be covered by sugar tax - BBC • DBE's National School Nutrition Programme • The content and scope of the right to nutritious food: Can section 27(1)(b) address the growing epidemic of obesity in South Africa? • Big change for drinks with lots of sugar in South Africa • Sugar industry in crisis: US tariffs threaten SA's economic stability • Duo arrested with ‘stolen school food aid’: education MEC Matome Chiloane • Feeding the Nation: A Klein Karoo Call to Action for Food Justice • Sugary drinks are a killer: a 20% tax would save lives and rands in South Africa • HEALA WEBSITE • Sweet solutions for Algeria • Urgent Call for Change: HEALA at Provincial Public Hearing in Polokwane • 23% of South Africa’s children suffer from severe hunger: we tested some solutions – experts • Front Packaging • Gauteng school nutrition tender battle heads to court | The Citizen • Sugar poison — Case for higher tax on sugar-sweetened drinks • Learners in Bushbuckridge are ‘taking turns to eat’ as families struggle to feed them • Brazil’s bold food policies highlight South Africa’s missed opportunities in school nutrition reform. • Sugary drinks are a killer. A 20% tax would save lives and rands in South Africa - By Susan Goldstein • Daily Maverick Events • Health budget promises improved funding — but is it enough? • Budget 2025: Godongwana has shown complete contempt for ordinary people living in South Africa. • South Africa’s Health Promotion Levy on pricing and acquisition of beverages in small stores and supermarkets - PMC • South African beverage tax has reduced purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages - UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health • Union Against Hunger • The association between the health promotion levy and employment in South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis - BMC Nutrition • SANSIA BLACKMORE AND KENNETH JACOBS: Now is the time to repurpose sin taxes as evidence-based health tax • New civil society group calls for urgent policy reform to create a food secure and healthy SA • SA's obesity and malnutrition crisis • Why are South African classrooms and children becoming fast food billboards? • Why SA needs to get a grip on diabetes – fast • Keeping the focus on the health of South Africans • A Dire Health Crisis: The Economic Burden of NCD's • How health tax can help children perform academically • INCIDENCE: Research reveals the grave health impact of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages, with South Africa among three countries worst-hit... • Letter to the Minister: DEAR FINANCE MINISTER ENOCH GODONWAHA • Delay does in fact mean death • Minister Aaron Motsoaledi must not delay regulations on warning labels | Awethu.mobi • Team Steenhuisen, do your homework on Sugary Drinks Tax! | Awethu.mobi • Dr Patrick Ngassa Piotie from the University of Pretoria's Diabetes Research Centre speaks on the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages (ssbs) on the healthcare system with Jeremy Maggs on Moneyweb on Hot 1027 • Dr Ngassa Piotie from the University of Pretoria's Diabetes Research Centre speaks with Jeremy Maggs • South Africans love sugary drinks. It’s having dire health effects - study | Business • South Africa shoulders high health burden of sugary drinks - Juta MedicalBrief • - YouTube • Press Statement: The TRUE Cost of Diabetes • Zimbabwe Rights Doctors Corner Finance Minister Over Sugar Tax • The True Cost of Diabetes: Alinah's Story • The True Cost of Diabetes: Babalo's Story • Experts sound alarm about South Africans' excessive sugar intake • HEALA CEO Nzama Mbalati speaking on the Health Promotion Levy: Fighting NCDs in South Africa • Now is not the time to halt the Health Promotion Levy • Zukiswa Zimela on Newzroom Afrika on the Health Promotion Levy: Putting People’s Health First! • Keep the focus on the health of South Africans. • Scrapping of the sugar tax will not save the sugar industry from its own woes • Help increase child support grant by raising the Health Promotion Levy | Awethu.mobi • Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Sugar Sweetened Profits. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. • The Growing Concern Around Instant Noodles and Ultra-Processed Foods - Cape Town Today • Interview with Nzama Mbalati on MetroFM’s Morning Fix • How food ads fuel unhealthy cravings • Healthy Living Alliance urge SA diners to embrace traditional foods on health menu • Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana must include 100% fruit juices in Sugary Drinks Tax | Awethu.mobi • Lori Lake on Smile FM: How FOPL Protect Consumers and Kids from Unhealthy Food Marketing • Media Statement: No evidence that the Health Promotion Levy has led to job losses • Five easy switches you can make to improve your health this Heart Awareness Month | Rising Sun Newspapers • HEALA Programmes Manager, Dr. Petronell Kruger on Newzroom Afrika! • Battling cravings: The dark side of tempting food ads • Sweetened Profits: The Industry Playbook to Fight Sweetened Beverage… • Not Today Nestlé • Sugary Drinks Tax • Our Kid's Health Is Not For Sale - Longevity LIVE • Kick Big Soda Out • HEALAUrges Health Minister to Address Hunger, Food Insecurity, and Obesity on SABC • Chew On This Episode 2: Is Big Food feeding us lies? • Debunking Myths: HPL and Job Impact in South Africa - Insights from PricelessZA • Seattle's sweetened beverage tax linked to lower BMIs in children - Health Systems and Population Health • More than 1 in 4 children under age 5 face 'severe' food poverty: UNICEF • SA cane growers call for review of sugar tax amid struggling industry • Nestlé, the baby food pioneer, wants to cash in on the world’s aging population problem • World Hunger Day: a chance to SA to vote for food justice • Chew On This Episode 1: How is Big Food violating our right to nutritious food? • How taxation and subsidies can work together to ensure that South Africans have healthier diets - HEALA • Will the food industry sacrifice its fat profits for health? - Bhekisisa • Unicef urges SA to prioritise its children – its greatest resource • The Meltdown in Chocolate Is Coming • Media advisory: Oxfam and cocoa farmers at World Cocoa Conference in Brussels | Oxfam International • ENCA Interview: Nestle's Alleged Sugar Addition to Baby Food in Lower Income Markets • Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about a sugar tax • Government must take action against double burden of malnutrition • KitKat owner Nestlé fights off push to cut back on unhealthy products • Prioritising the health of South Africans (HEALA) • Combining food taxes and subsidies can lead to healthier grocery purchases for low-income households • Insights on Proposed Health Regulations: A Conversation with Angelia Greembeek on SAFM • Program Manager at HEALA Petronell Kruger Speaks to SABC News on World Obesity Day • Press Statement: How we need to think about the right to food this Human Rights Day - HEALA • This World Obesity Day we urgently need to confront the scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa. - HEALA • The evidence is clear: Sugary beverages are harmful; SA’s Health Promotion Levy is helpful - HEALA • FOPWL: A Win for Public Health Webinar • In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger (Published 2018) • Sweetened Drinks Linked to Higher Atrial Fibrillation Risk - Quicknews • HEALA's Program Manager Petronell Kruger on Newzroom Afrika for World Obesity Day. • Stream Angelika Grimbeek Radio Islam International by HEALA | Listen online for free on SoundCloud • Catch HEALA's Interim CEO, Nzama Mbalati, on SABC News with Bongiwe Zwane as they shed light on the complexities of tackling obesity-related health issues. • SONA 2024 - School Nutrition Programme Nzama Mbalati • WHO calls on countries to tax sugar-sweetened beverages to save lives • Farmers urge Treasury to hold sugar tax steady • Countries that have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) | Obesity Evidence Hub • Some 40% of Chinese children face obesity by 2030, study finds • Hit or miss? Nutritionists deliver verdict on Pret's menu for kids • Health halos: What they are and why you need to avoid them • Giving you the squeeze: Fruit Juice companies are not 100% honest - HEALA • Why we should not be giving kids juice - Today's Parent • ‘Don’t drink fruit juice’, consumers told • Juice maker’s misleading numbers game • Taxes on sugary drinks cut consumer sales by 33%, study says | CNN • 5 years of the UK's Soft Drinks Industry Levy | WCRF International • WHO: Time to Hike Alcohol, Sugary Drinks Tax • Sugar Tax (HPL) To Curb Diabetes Crisis • An increase in the sugar tax will boost SA’s ailing economy • Bad food choices: clearer labels aim to help South Africans pick healthier options • Delays in increasing the Health Promotion Levy a danger to South Africans • Let’s be upfront on front-of-pack labelling • Resistance to safety labels proves food industry doesn’t support public health • Tell Treasury transparency is not optional | Awethu.mobi • This is Midterm Budget Speech, The Healthy Living Alliance is calling for the Minister to prioritise increasing HPL to contribute to the fiscus - Cape Business News • Food marketing: SA needs regulation to protect children – experts • SA Canegrowers calls on President to pledge support for locally produced sugar • Front of package food labelling: Your health depends on it • WHO ‘action guide’ aims for healthier snack at sports events • Support the regulation for warning labels on unhealthy packaged food. You have a voice. • 🚨 Wake up now, South Africa! 🚨 • What is in our food? • This World Heart Day, the Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) is calling on the government to take the health of South Africans to heart. - HEALA • Heala holds food discussion in Rosebank | Rosebank Killarney Gazette • Demand warning labels on all unhealthy food | Awethu.mobi • Webinar with Camila Corvalán on Front Of Pack Warning Labels • Five reasons to support draft Labelling Regulations R3337 • HEALA Media Brunch • DEMAND WARNING LABELS ON ALL UNHEALTHY FOOD! • WE ARE HIRING: Social Media Coordinator • WE ARE HIRING: Chief Executive Officer • WE ARE HIRING: Legal Consultant with Advocacy Axpertise • WE ARE HIRING: Finance And Admin Intern • Stop Industry Interference • Voluntary commitments by big food on marketing unhealthy food don't work • What's in our food petition • HEALA slams Nestle • What's eating us • No Evidence That Voluntary Actions By The Food And Beverage Industry Can Safeguard Public Health • Parents May Make Healthier Food Purchases When Ultra-Processed Foods Include Warning Labels • South Africa’s food systems are broken, but we can fix them. Here’s how • SA’s tax on sugary drinks has brought in almost R8 billion – less than 1% is spent on health ‘promotion’ • Healthy eating: ECD kids ditch sweets for homegrown greens • Nestlé bows to public pressure, cancels event after falling foul of SA laws • The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit • What Is Front-Of-Package Labelling, And Why Does South Africa Need It? • Beverage giant Nestlé flouts South African advertising laws. Again. • HEALA statement on Cabinet Reshuffle: South Africa's health minister must seize the moment for food equity • Hunger and depression in the pandemic: Why government must target food security to improve South Africa’s mental health • HOPE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD HUNGER, AS COURT ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO RETHINK ITS PLANS TO ENSURE THAT ALL LEARNERS GET SCHOOL MEALS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC • The hunger games: The structural violence of the food system against the poor • NIDS-CRAM Wave 5 results report - hunger • NIDS-CRAM Latest Survey Results • Child malnutrition: A human rights violation and slow violence against children • South Africans are going hungry during Covid-19: Ipsos • Household Food Basket spikes in April 2021: women raise alarm • Poor nutrition is a weak foundation for a nation with big dreams • The sugary beverage tax in SA & beyond • Fight COVID-19 with the health promotion levy • Double the health promotion levy for rural commmunities • Overconsumption of sugar linked to increasing obesity • The Evidence Is Clear: Sugary Beverages Are Harmful • Fiscal fails: South Africa’s Treasury has failed yet again • A 20% Sugary Drinks Tax Is Long Overdue!