South Africa's Competition Commission recommended Anheuser-Busch InBev's takeover of fellow brewer SABMiller, taking the industry's biggest-ever deal one step closer to completion. AB InBev must sell SABMiller's 26% stake in local wine, cider and spirits producer Distell within three years of closing the deal, the Pretoria-based antitrust regulator said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday. Retaining the stake, worth about $559 million, could hurt competition, it said. Other conditions include protecting jobs and setting up a R1 billion ($64 million) fund to support local farmers, agreed to by the government last month. "These conditions address issues that were raised by various stakeholders since the announcement of the acquisition," Competition Commissioner Tembinkosi Bonakele said in the statement. Those parties included South Africa's government and labor unions, he said.