This includes the end of apartheid in South Africa and the advent of postcolonial African nations. Coca-Cola lore says that the company first secured local bottlers for its concentrate in South Africa in 1928, its first stop on the African continent. What role did it play in apartheid South Africa? Coca-Cola was entrenched in South Africa before the advent of the racist, white minority apartheid state in 1948. It then moved its concentrate plant to neighbouring Eswatini, leaving Coca-Cola with no assets or employees in South Africa.

Source: Daily Nation January 02, 2024 08:13 UTC