The South African Alcohol Policy Alliance (SAAPA) welcomes the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa’s ruling that found that TOPS SPAR Apple Cider advert “THERE ARE 36 APPLES IN A GALLON OF CIDER THAT’LL KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY. GOOD CIDER GOOD ADVICE” was not honest and misleading to consumers and violated the basic code as …

The alcohol industry has done it yet again. DAVOS-2018, the platform for big business access to governments, was used to announce a partnership between the Global Fund (combatting HIV AIDS, TB and malaria) and brewing giant Heineken. Heineken – the very same company exposed in Olivier van Beemen’s book, Heineken in Africa, to have relationships …

With tactics perfected by the tobacco industry over the last 50 years, multinational food, beverage and alcohol companies are working to deter, delay and derail policies that save millions of lives. Let’s not be fooled again. Multinational food, soda and alcohol giants are employing the same tactics that made tobacco a pariah in the global …

Response to the judgement in the Johannesburg High Court on 1 November 2017 in the Gauteng Shebeen License Regulations case The Yeoville Bellevue Ratepayers Association (YBRA) and the Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (SAAPA) welcome the ruling made by Justice Matojane in the Johannesburg High Court today, 1 November 2017, in favour of the YBRA, …

The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (SAAPA) has slammed South African Breweries (SAB) “She Loves Beer” campaign. While the campaign seeks to celebrate and promote women in the brewing industry, SAAPA is concerned that the campaign targets young women, particularly in light of the highest number of reported cases of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in …

On the eve of the world commemorating foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, SAB ironically chose to launch a “She loves beer” campaign. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum disorder (FASD) affects children whose mothers drank during their pregnancy. The facts are clear. Children with FASD are born with low birthweight, smaller skull and other physical symptoms which they never …

Anti-alcohol lobby groups are calling on the government to revisit stalled legislation on alcohol advertising. The link address is: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/proposed-new-liquor-law-needs-revisiting-10814218

The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (Saapa) strongly condemned the latest marketing strategy. The link address is: http://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20170810/281586650694479

SAAPA, along with the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), Sacowach and Schools of Public Health across South Africa voiced our strong concern about SAB’s use of hunger to market their products under the guide of donating the proceeds from sales of an 8-pack beers to Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa. Following public condemnation …

We are deeply concerned at the pairing, by South African Breweries (SAB), of a marketing strategy to sell more beer to an intervention to address hunger amongst university students in need. Click here to read our letter to SAB.