Ahead of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget Speech on February 21, industry body the South African Cane Growers’ Association (SA Canegrowers) has called on National Treasury to prioritise measures to aid economic recovery and job retention in the sector, including by not increasing the Health Promotion Levy (HPL). It has been a trying five-year period for the sugar industry, SA Canegrowers says, adding that an increase in the levy, also called the sugar tax, would be destructive and. unjustifiable.
