Carte Blanche coming up: Illegal cigarettes

The Sunday, 4 January episode of Carte Blanche delves into South Africa’s illicit cigarette commerce, exposing how a whole bunch of smugglers cross the border day by day.

In response to the report, smugglers flip rural areas into battlegrounds and drive landowners to both flee, look away or revenue from the crime.

The multibillion-rand underground economic system has overtaken the authorized market, costing the state billions in misplaced tax income annually.

Regardless of authorities pledges to clamp down, corruption and porous borders proceed to gas the commerce, as Carte Blanche traces the hidden provide chain from border crossings to spaza store counters to disclose how the operation survives.

Credibility amongst South African viewers

Carte Blanche is a South African investigative journalism tv collection that airs on M-Web each Sunday at 19:00.

Its first episode aired on 21 August 1988 and during the last 34-plus years has earned credibility amongst South African viewers for its investigation into corruption, shopper points, and present occasions.

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