The urgent application brought by British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) to have the ban on the sale of tobacco products set aside has been delayed by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of ...

British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) is gearing up for another round in the ring with Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Last month, the ...

British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) has confirmed that it will close its only local cigarette manufacturing facility, citing the scale and persistence of illicit trade as the primary reason.

British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) on Wednesday counter-filed an application for leave to appeal the December high court ruling in which it successfully argued that last year’s ...

Corné van Walbeek is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (Reep). Samantha Filby is a Research ...

The group also intends to cast doubt on the core of the state's justification – that smoking causes more severe cases of Covid-19. South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American ...

British American Tobacco SA (Batsa) said on Friday it will start urgent legal proceedings to challenge the government's decision to extend the ban on tobacco sales during level 3 of the lockdown. It ...

JOHANNESBURG - British American Tobacco South (Batsa) is considering its legal options after the government postponed the extended cigarettes and vaping ban hearing by six weeks, the company said on ...

The planned closure of British American Tobacco South Africa's (BATSA) manufacturing plant is damning proof that authorities' failure to curb the illicit cigarette trade is destroying jobs, draining ...

The second tobacco ban challenge brought by British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) was supposed to be heard in June but has now been postponed to early August. BATSA's lawyers are protesting ...