Vaccine tax hike underscores Treasury’s limited options – sin taxes should be on the table

Ed Stoddard
19 JAN

A hazy future for some farmers despite tobacco ban lift

Lucas Ledwaba for Mukurukuru Media
18 AUG

Spirits low for craft distillers

Leah van Deventer
14 AUG

Prohibition: Social conservatism that’s shattering working-class lives

Ed Stoddard
10 AUG

Sooner or later, we have to take back what is ours

Bianca Coleman
07 AUG

Charting a healthier way forward for alcohol in SA, now and into the future

Charles Parry, Glenda Gray, Aadielah Maker and Maurice Smithers
27 JUL

Interview: SA’s vaping industry is going up in smoke

Ed Stoddard
22 JUL

Barroom blues: SA’s food and beverage sector has collapsed

Ed Stoddard
20 JUL

Poverty, hunger and opportunism in the epicentre of Joburg’s Covid-19 outbreak

Shaun Smillie
17 JUL

Every attempt at prohibition in SA has been a miserable failure

Joanne Gibson
15 MAY

Let’s add 20% to the sin tax as an incentive to lift the prohibition

Ed Stoddard
12 MAY

BAT Spat: Tobacco giant drops legal action to pursue talks on cigarette ban

Ed Stoddard
06 MAY

SARS commissioner sees 15%-20% revenue shortfall due to Covid-19 lockdown

Ed Stoddard
05 MAY

Reconsidering the position on tobacco was a collective decision

Cyril Ramaphosa
04 MAY

Prohibition, the stiffest drink of all

J Brooks Spector
24 APR

Prohibition lockdown goes rogue

Ferial Haffajee
20 APR

Collective Cold Turkey: Mental health professionals concerned about sudden withdrawal of alcohol

Marianne Thamm
27 MAR

Trouble brewing: Climate change threatens world beer production

Shaun Smillie
18 OCT 2018

Analysis: Government’s alcohol play, a dangerous over-reach

Stephen Grootes
29 AUG 2013