South African formal businesses selling carbonated sugar drinks are estimated to suffer a R1. 4 billion loss in revenue.
The Komani Industrial Park Revitalisation Project will see new jobs being created in townships and rural communities in the Eastern Cape.
South African farmers have been urged to cultivate pulses, as the leguminous plants have proven to be drought-resistant.
R1. 2bn collected from taxes on plastic bags over the past 13 years has not gone to creating jobs for youth in the green industry as it was meant to.