Apartheid and business: Competition, monopoly and the growth of the malted beer industry in South Africa

Anne Kelk Mager

Business History, 2008, vol. 50, issue 3, 272-290

Abstract: The South African brewing industry experienced enormous growth in the apartheid era, following the lifting of prohibition on the sale of 'European liquor' to Africans in 1961. Successive international brewers and local entrepreneurs sought to benefit from increased demand in the 1970s but were unable to withstand competition from South African Breweries (SAB), the dominant player in the industry. A decade of intense competition in the brewing industry ended with the intervention of the cabinet of the Afrikaner Nationalist government. SAB's status as 'sole supplier to the industry' remained virtually unchallenged until the demise of apartheid and the end of South Africa's international isolation. The end of apartheid and changes in the global brewing industry brought renewed competition to the South African beer market in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Keywords: beer industry; South Africa; competition; apartheid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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