About

Joe Ralebepa, an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, currently serves as the chief legal officer of Tiger Brands. Furthermore, Joe is a member of its executive committee. He is an accomplished and seasoned legal and corporate executive with over 20 years of corporate and commercial law and business experience, gained in multinational FMCG and retail companies. Joe is a passionate corporate legal executive with a wealth of knowledge in corporate commercial law, regulatory and antitrust law, intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, risk management, legal compliance, and corporate governance.

Joe joined Tiger Brands in January 2020 from the Massmart Group (a subsidiary of Walmart), where he held the role of group legal executive, general counsel, and company secretary from November 2016 until December 2019 and served on its executive committee.

Prior to Massmart, Joe held senior management roles at British American Tobacco (BAT), including as head of legal and external affairs for the British American Tobacco, Southern Africa region, having joined BAT in 2013.

After practicing for a short while as a commercial and corporate law attorney at Werksmans, having completed two years of articling from 1999, Joe joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2002 as divisional legal counsel, Southern and East Africa Division. During his tenure at Coca-Cola, Joe held various senior corporate legal roles in Africa and the UK, including as general counsel and legal director for the Southern Africa Business Unit and group IP counsel, Africa.