Ten of the best South African boerewors-makers faced each other whilst aiming to impress a judging panel of food experts in the 2014 Shoprite Checkers Championship Boerewors grand finale, held at Sun City's Valley of Waves on 4 October. The competition has proven to be as popular as ever, with more than a thousand of the country's best boerewors-makers battling it out for the ten best recipes to be selected to compete in Sun City. It was a gruelling five months with three elimination rounds and some 55,000 pieces of boerewors being tasted by 400 judges.
Van Dyk is a regional meat market manager and said that he has tweaked his recipe over the years and finally got it perfectly balanced.
The runner-up was awarded to Thlokes Nkomo from Rustenburg in the North West and home executive, Chantél Gouws from Vereeniging in Gauteng, took third place.
To add to this year's excitement, the finalists will be donating a year's supply of Championship Boerewors to a school of their choice - in total over 2850kg of boerewors will be donated. Van Dyk chose Pietersburg High School to receive a 1000kg Championship Boerewors donation, Nkomo chose Primrose High School in Germiston to receive 500kg and Gouws chose College Park Primary School in Vanderbijlpark to receive 300kg of the Championship Boerewors.
The other seven finalists who competed for the title and the grand prize were: Bheki Tshezi from Mthatha, Abraham Smith from Cape Town, Gloria Sekuketse from Kimberley, Hennie Botha from Bloemfontein, Tristan Lucke from Durban, Andries Gama from Nelspruit and Gerrie Gouws from Meyerton. Each of the other seven contestants will be donating 150kg of boerewors to a school of their choice. All these schools can use the boerewors donations for their own fundraising campaigns.
The 2014 Championship Boerewors, produced according to the winning boerewors recipe, will hit the shelves of Checkers, Checkers Hyper and Shoprite stores countrywide on 10 October.
For more information, go to www.championshipboerewors.co.za.
