Wed Sep 11 06:15:00 UTC 2013
The battle heats up in the Shoprite Checkers Championship BoereworsCompetition!
More than 1000 hopeful boerewors-experts entered the 2013 Shoprite Checkers Championship Boerewors Competition, but only 88 boerewors experts remain standing after facing their competitors in tough regional rounds that took place countrywide during August 2013. These regional winners will now face each other once again in provincial rounds to determine which ten will go to Sun City in October in a final effort to win the famous boerewors crown!
All ten provincial rounds take place on 14 September. Gauteng, with most entries received, will host two provincial rounds - one in Brakpan and another in Boksburg. Regional winners in the Western Cape will travel to Stellenbosch, Northern Cape winners to Kimberley, KwaZulu-Natal winners to Durban, and Free State contestants will take on the battle in Bloemfontein. Eastern Cape regional winners will meet in Port Elizabeth, North West winners at Brits, Mpumalanga winners in Nelspruit, while Polokwane readies itself for regional winners and their supporters from Limpopo.
In each province, regional winners will bring and braai the boerewors they entered into the competition. The events start at 10:00 and visitors will be entertained throughout what promises to be a fun-filled event. Coca-Cola, Simba and All Gold, co-sponsors of the Shoprite Checkers Championship Boerewors Competition, will offer promotional activities and sampling of their products, whilst children’s areas with a jumping castle and face painting will keep the little ones entertained.
Top food experts from the South African Chefs Association (SACA) will judge the provincial rounds. The 2013 Shoprite Checkers Championship Boerewors will also receive the South African Chefs Association’s stamp of approval, to ensure that the ingredients for South Africa’s best loved boerewors are of the highest quality.
Winners of the provincial rounds each walk away with R2000 Checkers or Shoprite meat vouchers and gift hampers from Coca-Cola, All Gold and Simba. All provincial winners will also enjoy a fun-filled weekend at Sun City where they join the other nine finalists for the grand finalé on 5 October. The 2013 Shoprite Checkers Boerewors Champion will not only walk away with the sought after Championship Boerewors-crown, but also drive away in a brand-new Toyota Hilux 2.7 Double Cab Raised Body Raider.
The country’s many loyal boerewors lovers can meanwhile start preparing for yet another taste sensation, because the winning recipe boerewors will hit the shelves of Checkers, Checkers Hyper and Shoprite stores countrywide, on 11 October.