A litigator and governance specialist who previously worked for the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the City of Cape Town joins the beverage giant to lead its African compliance and employment practice.
Tamryn Sass, until recently the general counsel of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, has this week joined Coca-Cola as its director and legal counsel for compliance and employment in Africa.
Johannesburg-based Sass is a litigation, employment and governance lawyer, who began her career with Smith Tabata Attorneys in the Eastern Cape, rising to be the firm’s head of commercial litigation and labour law.
Since 2015, Sass has held in-house roles. However Coca-Cola will be her first in a commercial entity, having first spent nearly seven years with the City of Cape Town, where she rose to be head of compliance and probity, overseeing governance and regulatory advice, among other responsibilities. She then spent four years with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, again overseeing governance, alongside legal strategies and managing risk and intellectual property mandates.
Sass’s appointment follows January’s hire of Johannesburg-based Ntswaki Kutumela, a lawyer with extensive experience of the drinks and consumer goods industries, as Unilever’s general counsel for Africa.
In a LinkedIn post announcing her move on Monday (28 September), Sass wrote: “This role brings together areas that have shaped much of my career: legal counsel, compliance & ethics, employment law, and governance and...
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