Afrique du Sud
◉ EMERGING PRODUCTION · Southern Africa
General Data
- Capital
- Pretoria (exécutive) ; Le Cap, Bloemfontein
- Population
- 64,7 M (2025)
- Area
- 1 221 037 km²
- Currency
- Rand (ZAR)
- Language
- English, Afrikaans, Zulu and nine others
- Timezone
- UTC+2
- GDP
- 427 Md$ (2025)
- Independence
- 1910 (Union); republic in 1961
Production
One workshop rolling by hand in George (Western Cape) — unquantified
Annual Revenue
No figures. South Africa grows tobacco — three to four hundred growers, about a fifth of them air-curing, says the farming press of 2023 — and has only one workshop making cigars from it. Wrapper and binder would come from a Western Cape valley, filler from the Eastern Cape: that is the house speaking.
Manufacturers
- Santa Bras Cigars (George)
Sommelier Note
A country that smokes many imported cigars — Cape Town and Johannesburg have their lounges — and rolls almost none. This atlas carries a single house there, Santa Bras, born of a 1990s hobby around George, which calls itself the country's only manufacturer. Its tobacco valley, between the Swartberg and the Outeniqua, is described only by the house: the atlas notes it without carrying it as a zone.
Iconic Brands 1
Cigar caves & lounges in Afrique du Sud 3
- One&Only Cape Town — Cigar Lounge Cape Town — Dock Road, V&A Waterfront, 8001
One&Only Cape Town hotel, Dock Road, V&A Waterfront. The existence of a cigar lounge was not cross-checked in the sources read.
- Davidoff Flagship — V&A Waterfront Cape Town Cape Town, V&A Waterfront
Davidoff flagship boutique in Cape Town. Complete range, walk-in humidor, premium lounge.
- Davidoff — Sandton City Johannesburg Johannesburg, Sandton City Mall
Davidoff boutique in the premium Sandton City mall.