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Collaboration for Harm Reduction and Alcohol Safety in the Environment in Southern Africa

Working to reduce alcohol-related harm in Southern Africa through research, community engagement, and evidence-informed policy.

🌍 From community conversations to global networks – catch up in our latest newsletter!What can we learn when research st...
09/10/2026

🌍 From community conversations to global networks – catch up in our latest newsletter!

What can we learn when research starts by listening to communities? 💬

In our latest issue, we share how community voices and experiences are helping shape research priorities across the Western Cape and Gauteng, alongside highlights from Safety 2026, the relaunch of GCAN, and the latest developments from the CHASE-SA team.

🤝 Because meaningful change starts with listening, connecting and working together.

Take a look at our latest newsletter to catch up on the people, ideas and partnerships helping to better understand and address alcohol-related harm in Southern Africa.

📖 Read Newsletter Issue 3:
👉https://health.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/media/documents/health_uct_ac_za/2915/chasesa-newsletter-issue-3.pdf

🔗 Find out more about CHASE-SA Project: https://health.uct.ac.za/chase-sa-project



Our partner SAAPA highlights three ways we can help reduce alcohol harm in South Africa: THREE WAYS YOU CAN HELP REDUCE ...
07/10/2026

Our partner SAAPA highlights three ways we can help reduce alcohol harm in South Africa:

THREE WAYS YOU CAN HELP REDUCE ALCOHOL HARM IN SOUTH AFRICA

1️⃣ SIGN THE PETITION
HIGHER EXCISE TAXES. HEALTHIER LIVES.
Help us call on government to increase alcohol excise tax above inflation.
🔹 A WHO Best Buy to reduce harmful alcohol use
🔹 Saves lives and reduces the cost to society
🔹 Supports healthier, safer communities

👉Sign the petition here: https://awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/alcohol-is-destroying-communities-increase-the-alcohol-tax

2️⃣ REPORT LIQUOR ESTABLISHMENTS
TOO MANY OUTLETS, TOO MUCH HARM.
Help us identify liquor establishments in your community as we call for a moratorium on the issuing of new liquor licences
🔹 There are too many licensed and unlicensed outlets
🔹 We need a full understanding of how many licences exist
🔹 This is supported by the 2026 Women's Parliament Declaration

👉 Message "LIQUOR" TO 060 086 7575

3️⃣ TRACK ELECTION MANIFESTOS
ACCOUNTABLE LEADERS. SAFER COMMUNITIES.
Check what political parties are saying about alcohol in the Local Government Elections and hold them accountable.
🔹 See their commitments on liquor officers
🔹 Find out what they say about Local Drug Action Committees (LDACS)
🔹 Support leaders who prioritise health, safety and development in your community

👉 Track Manifestos here: https://truecostofalcohol.africa/election-accountability-tracker/



Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance The True Cost of Alcohol - By SAAPA

Alcohol and gender-based violence: what does the evidence tell us?How does harmful alcohol use contribute to gender-base...
02/10/2026

Alcohol and gender-based violence: what does the evidence tell us?

How does harmful alcohol use contribute to gender-based violence and interpersonal violence?

In a recent interview, Dr Leane Ramsoomar of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and a member of the CHASE-SAteam, discusses what the evidence tells us — and what can be done.

🔹 Research consistently links harmful drinking, particularly heavy drinking by men, with a higher likelihood of perpetrating intimate partner violence.

🔹 Alcohol can amplify existing risk factors, including gender inequality, trauma, poverty and learned patterns of violence.

🔹 When alcohol is involved, violence can become more frequent, severe and unpredictable, increasing the risk of serious injury.

🔹 Reducing alcohol-related harm requires more than awareness campaigns. Leane highlights the importance of measures addressing the availability, affordability and marketing of alcohol, alongside accessible prevention and treatment programmes.

🎥 Watch the full interview to hear Leane unpack the evidence and discuss potential public health and policy responses.
https://youtu.be/aEJc6kIL_Zs?si=pO4RpF345pj_nFAC

🔗 Find out more about the CHASE-SA: https://health.uct.ac.za/chase-sa-project

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🌍 What shapes our health — and who gets to shape the solutions? From the to***co and alcohol industries to fossil fuels...
16/09/2026

🌍 What shapes our health — and who gets to shape the solutions?

From the to***co and alcohol industries to fossil fuels, food and pesticides, commercial activities can influence the conditions in which we live and our health outcomes.

Understanding these influences is an important step towards building healthier communities. But how do we move from understanding the problem to taking action?

This was one of the key questions explored at the relaunch of the Global Commercial Determinants of Health Action Network (GCAN), held in Cape Town on 5 September 2026.

Researchers, advocates and partners came together to explore how commercial actors shape health, share insights from different sectors, and discuss opportunities for collective action across Africa and beyond.

A key message from the discussions: communities must be active participants in shaping solutions, not simply recipients of information.

Participants highlighted the importance of making research accessible, strengthening community-led advocacy, building coalitions and developing tools to better understand and monitor the influence of commercial actors.

The meeting also provided an opportunity to reflect on the GCAN Cape Town Statement and identify priorities for the network’s future work.

At CHASE-SA, we recognise the importance of collaboration between researchers, communities and advocates in translating evidence into action on alcohol-related harm.

🔗 Find out more about the CHASE-SA: https://health.uct.ac.za/chase-sa-project

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What if the communities most affected by alcohol-related harm helped shape the solutions? That’s at the heart of CHASE-S...
08/09/2026

What if the communities most affected by alcohol-related harm helped shape the solutions?

That’s at the heart of CHASE-SA’s approach. 🤝

Our Gauteng Community Advisory Panel recently came together to reflect on project progress, emerging research findings and opportunities for community-led action on alcohol-related harms.

The conversation reinforced an important message: meaningful change takes collaboration between communities, researchers, policymakers and organisations.

Together, the panel explored ways to:
✅ Share emerging research findings with communities
✅ Develop an Alcohol Action Manual for community use
✅ Strengthen advocacy skills through future training
✅ Build partnerships that can support meaningful policy and social change

By bringing lived experience and research evidence together, CHASE-SA is working to ensure that knowledge and solutions are relevant to the communities they are intended to serve.

A big thank you to our Community Advisory Panel members, community activators, researchers and partners for helping turn evidence into action. 🌍

🔗 Find out more about the CHASE-SA: https://health.uct.ac.za/chase-sa-project

📩 Subscribe for project updates: https://icts.everlytic.net/public/forms/h/B4GPmMuBhQwM7ss0/ZTMwNTkwMTMyMTc4YzE5ZGYwM2E3ZmYwMDZkOTAwYmMwYmE4YTI4YQ==




Strengthening community voices in alcohol policy We’re proud to support our CHASE-SA partner, the Southern African Alco...
04/09/2026

Strengthening community voices in alcohol policy

We’re proud to support our CHASE-SA partner, the Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance, at .

Yesterday, SAAPA South Africa Project Associate Makhosazana Ndlovu presented on efforts to monitor liquor licence applications and strengthen communities’ participation in alcohol licensing processes.
Understanding where and how alcohol is made available is an important part of understanding alcohol environments and their impact on health and safety.

Well done to Makhosazana and the SAAPA team for bringing this important work into the Safety 2026 conversation.



The True Cost of Alcohol - By SAAPA

📍 CHASE-SA at Safety 2026 | Day 3 We’re pleased to be part of , where safety professionals, researchers and industry st...
03/09/2026

📍 CHASE-SA at Safety 2026 | Day 3

We’re pleased to be part of , where safety professionals, researchers and industry stakeholders are coming together to share knowledge, strengthen partnerships and explore new approaches to prevention.

For CHASE-SA, these conversations are an opportunity to bring evidence on alcohol environments and alcohol-related harm into a broader discussion about health, safety and safer communities.

If you’re attending, come and find us at the CHASE-SA exhibition stand to learn more about our research and emerging findings.

📍 Safety 2026 | Today Richard Moutzoupoulos of the SAMRC, Principal Investigator of CHASE-SA, is leading the discussion ...
02/09/2026

📍 Safety 2026 | Today

Richard Moutzoupoulos of the SAMRC, Principal Investigator of CHASE-SA, is leading the discussion on commercial influences and injury prevention — and what it means for building safer societies when industries linked to harm can influence policy and decision-making.

A timely conversation about commercial power, accountability and the future of prevention.



African Medical Research Council

📍 Safety 2026 | Today Dr Leane Ramsoomar of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is presenting research on...
02/09/2026

📍 Safety 2026 | Today

Dr Leane Ramsoomar of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is presenting research on adapting and testing a femicide risk assessment tool for South African women experiencing severe intimate partner violence (IPV).

We’re proud to have Leane as part of the CHASE-SA team. Her work makes an important contribution to strengthening prevention and identifying risk earlier.



African Medical Research Council Leane Ramsoomar (PhD)

📍 Day 1 at Safety 2026The CHASE-SA team is at Safety 2026 for set-up and opening day, connecting with researchers, pract...
01/09/2026

📍 Day 1 at Safety 2026

The CHASE-SA team is at Safety 2026 for set-up and opening day, connecting with researchers, practitioners and partners working to understand and address the factors shaping health and safety.

We’re looking forward to sharing ideas, learning from others and highlighting our work throughout the conference.

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