Olivier Kritzinger reclaims Championship Boerewors title

From left: Yvonne Blaauw, James Khoza, Olivier Kritzinger, Willie Peters and Jimmy Steenberg.

He was announced the winner on 28 August at an exclusive beach braai-off hosted by Shoprite and Checkers where the top 10 finalists faced off to impress an independent judging panel of culinary experts from the South African Chefs Association (SACA). Among the judges were celebrity chefs Zola Nene and Pete Goffe-Wood.

“I have a passion for quality,” says the winner who has entered the competition 17 times. “Good quality meat and spices plus the correct method are the secrets to my winning recipe,” he adds.

Runner-up was last year’s winner, Yvonne Blaauw from Wellington, with Jimmy Steenberg, from Despatch in the Eastern Cape, in third place.

Along with the title of SA’s No.1 Boerewors Champion, Kritzinger also walks away with prizes worth more than R500,000, including a new Toyota Fortuner 2.4 GD-6 4X4 6AT.

Search is on for SA's best boerewors recipe

22 May 2019

Kritzinger’s recipe will be on sale in all Shoprite and Checkers stores nationwide from Friday, 13 September 201, ahead of Heritage Day and the kick-off of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Shoprite and Checkers celebrate the country’s boerewors tradition by hosting the annual Championship Boerewors competition. For the past 27 years, these two supermarket chains have embarked on a nationwide search for South Africa’s very best boerewors.