Smoke Screen – Episode 1: Room 205
They say a leopard doesn’t change its spots. Our investigation starts in 2013, and we meet an attorney called Belinda Walter who is recruited by BAT in London to spy on the tobacco smugglers within South Africa. How is it that an upstanding citizen can get wrapped up in this world? Can a young journalist uncover one of the biggest scandals the South African tobacco industry has seen in decades?
Over the next 8 weeks, we will be exploring allegations that British American Tobacco used a network of spies to help damage its rivals. One of these, Belinda Walter, nearly brought the whole operation crashing down.
BAT denies any wrong doing.
A Novel production for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Auddy.
-
Politics1 week agoThe Campaign that Remembered Nothing and Forgot Nothing
-
Politics2 weeks agoWhy Azimio’s Presidential Petition Stood No Chance
-
Politics2 weeks agoIt’s a Nurses’ Market Out There, and Kenyans Are Going For It
-
Politics1 week agoLagos From Its Margins: Everyday Experiences in a Migrant Haven
-
Long Reads6 days agoThe Lion, the Gazelle and the Mountain: Migration Tales of the Cattle People
-
Op-Eds1 week agoWar of the Worlds: Africa’s Next Great War
-
Op-Eds6 days agoWill Ruto Resist the Temptation to Marginalize Civil Society?
-
Politics6 days agoMoving to the Metropole: Migration as Revolution