SA’s No 1 boerewors champ is …
A 32-year-old woman makes the best boerewors in South Africa. Story and more interesting facts here:
A 32-year-old woman from Malamulele, Limpopo, makes the best boerewors in South Africa.
Queen Mathebula was crowned the winner of the 25th annual Championship Boerewors competition and her recipe – South Africa’s number-one boerewors – will be available in all Shoprite and Checkers stores nationwide from Friday, 15 September.
“It’s fourth time lucky for me,” beamed Queen. “I feel so privileged and honoured to have been a part of this esteemed competition and to have made it to the top.”
Along with the sought-after title of SA’s No1 Boerewors Champion, Queen has also won the grand prize of a brand-new Toyota Hilux 2.8 GD-6 Double Cab Raised Body Raider.
The other two finalists were James Lebepe, 34, from Atteridgeville, Gauteng and Moses Mathebula, 29, from Lenyenye also in Limpopo. All three finalists received gift hampers from sponsors Coca-Cola, All Gold and Simba, as well as vouchers from Shoprite and Checkers stores.
Queen was named the 2017 Championship Boerewors winner following an exciting charity rugby match between a team of former national players and some current rugby world champions.
Ex-Springbok Bakkies Botha came out of retirement to lead the ‘Braai Legends’ in a friendly touch-rugby game against the ‘Braai Champs’, captained by Stephan Dippenaar. The charity match was in aid of the VUSA Academy, a rugby and academic upliftment programme based in the community of Langa.
Interesting facts (for the financial year ended on 30 June 2017):
• A total of 10 483 646km Championship Boerewors – the distance between Cape Town and Bangkok – was sold in the past year.
• Using a standard 15cm piece of boerewors, we would have been able to make 69,8 million boerewors rolls.
• The total weight sold is 5 947 074kg.
Traditional boerewors:
• Recipes entered into the Championship Boerewors competition have to be for traditional boerewors:
• Boerewors must contain at least 90 per cent meat – always containing beef, as well as lamb or pork or a mixture of lamb and pork, and the fat content of the meat mixture may not exceed 30 per cent.
• The distinctive combinations of spices like coriander, cloves, nutmeg and black pepper as well as fluids like vinegar, water and Worcestershire sauce are what differentiate boerewors from other variants.
• Recipes may not contain bacon, chutney, cheese, peri-peri, curry, tomato sauce, peppadews®, green pepper, parmesan, Aromat®, chilli or venison.
2017 competition at a glance:
• The South African Chefs Association (SACA) once again took charge of the judging process and ensured that all entries adhered to the guidelines for making truly traditional boerewors.
• Hundreds of entrants battled it out at the six Champion Rounds held in KwaZulu-Natal, Free-State, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng (two rounds) on 1 and 8 July 2017.
• The three winning contestants from each Champion Round participated at the Top 18 Round on Saturday 22 July 2017 where the top three finalists were selected.
• Between Friday, 18 August and Friday 8 September 2017 the top three recipes were made available in Shoprite and Checkers stores nationwide for the public to buy, braai, try and vote for their favourite.
• It is the third year in the history of the competition that the public has been able to vote for their favourite boerewors. (Public voting was first introduced in 2015.)
• For the 2017 Championship Boerewors competition, Shoprite has partnered with the VUSA Academy.
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