we're catching up with AB InBev - the global mega-brewer that got even bigger after it bought SAB Miller. Since the more than 100 billion dollar takeover was completed last year, the combined company has been selling more than one in every four beers drunk in the world. But it isn't an easy task to merge the world's two largest brewers. It took more than a year and required permissions across scores of countries including South Africa. AB InBev warned it needed to cut 3 per cent of the workforce of the combined company, representing about 5 and a half thousand jobs. And after all the work the company reported disappointing results for 2016 and execs forfeited their bonuses. Well South African Breweries - which many local beer drinkers and investors are nostalgic about - has been swept up in this truly global company. Since the merger SAB has fallen off the JSE board, and has been replaced with AB InBev. But AB Inbev has maintained that South Africa and Africa are crucial to its plans, and it's fully invested in our economic future. SABC News spoke to Zone President for Africa and SAB, Ricardo Tadeu.

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