Wellington mom crowned boerewors champion

“How amazing to win this competition,” exclaimed Blaauw. “I have been perfecting my boerewors recipe for as long as I can remember, so to know that it is the very best in the country is just incredible!”

To celebrate South Africa’s boerewors tradition, Shoprite and Checkers host the Championship Boerewors competition every year. The top ten finalists of the 2018 competition competed at a ‘Braai in the Sky’ on Wednesday, where they impressed an independent judging panel of culinary experts from the South African Chefs Association (SACA), who were tasked with selecting this year’s number one boerewors.

Along with the sought-after title of SA’s No.1 Boerewors Champion, Blaauw has won the grand prize of a brand new Toyota Hilux DC 2.8 GD-6 Raised Body Raider worth over R500,000.

Second and third place went to Jean Drotsky from Pretoria and Bobby Hassen from Randgate respectively. The top three each received gift hampers from sponsors Coca-Cola and Wellington’s as well as Shoprite and Checkers gift vouchers.