45 GREAT MOMENTS IN BLACK BUSINESS – No. 11: Mandela Election Ignites Black Business Boom
After the election of Nelson Mandela as president of apartheid-free South Africa, a number of BE 100s, the nation's largest black-owned businesses, created offices and developed new ventures in the nation: Johnson Publishing Co.; BET; Luster Products; and New Age Beverages Ltd., a Pepsi bottling franchise.