"Plausible deniability" for BAT execs as investigation into the murky world of SA's tobacco industry digs deeper

Loading player...
For the past year and a half a team at UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has looking into activity in the South African tobacco industry. The result of those efforts is a cracking eight series Podcast called Smoke Screen (on auddy.co). In this interview, the Bureau's international editor James Ball joins Alec Hogg with a taste of what's in Smoke Screen's Episode 5 - and explain how executives at multinational protagonist British American Tobacco have leaned on the boardroom ploy of "plausible deniability". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Oct 2021 9AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

The BizNews Edge: African Bank's Billion-Rand Acquisition Trap

African Bank swung to a loss of nearly a billion rand after a four-year spree of buying and bolting together three banks to build a full-service lender, and the bad debt charge is still climbing. The contrast is brutal: a focused platinum-and-chrome miner, Tharisa, is printing cash with profit up…
25 Jun 7AM 9 min