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Braai4Heritage features in Gay Newspaper!

By Jan Braai | Published September 1, 2010

Quoting their website, “the Pink Tongue is Cape Town’s first and only monthly community newspaper for the colourful and diverse gay community”. And their September print edition has a feature on Braai4Heritage. This is obviously fantastic, and yet again proves that everybody in the country likes to braai. Thank you Pink Tongue for your help in getting the Braai4Heritage message to the nation.

Braai4Heritage features in gay newspaper Pink Tongue.

If you cannot read the article, it is essentially a reprint of the Braai4Heritage vision, which you can read here. You will notice that there is not only the text, but also some photos, and another supporting article about Spitbraai. There is even an advertisement about beef.

Thanks Martin

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Expedition to London gathers steam

By Dan Nicholl | Published August 31, 2010

Jan Braai (to quote Jan Braai) are very much excited. Rarely seen beyond the braai smoke of Stellenbosch, Jan is boarding a flight to London on Friday night, with me as his tong-wielding (buffalo) wing man, to spread the gospel of the braai to that great South African city in the north. A week of meat on fires awaits, with a couple of celebrity braais – Schalk Brits, Ernst Joubert, Justin Melck and the Saracens rugby team, and Luke Watson, Pieter Dixon, Michael Claasens and their Bath team-mates, amongst others – on the London agenda; and then there’s the visit to Shaka Zulu…

Jan and Dan. Spreading the braaiday message from the Southern tip of Africa all the way to London

The sheer number of South Africans in London (Afrikaans is the third most spoken language in the city, apparently, after Urdu and Polish…) makes for an array of South African stores; it also makes for myriad South African restaurants, of which Shaka Zulu is the latest. A vast, upmarket venue that’s restaurant, bar, club and temple to South African indulgence rolled into one, it’s exactly the sort of place King Shaka would have approved of had he pitched up in London in 2010. Which is just as well, ‘cos that’s where we’re headed this Saturday.

Shaka Zulu will be firing up the braais from mid-morning, and by the time 12 o’clock comes round, the doors will be open, meat will be cooking, and the beer will be particularly cold. All that’s needed, then, is a horde of hungry, thirsty South Africans, looking to celebrate our London warm-up for National Braai Day, and watch the Springboks thump the Wallabies in the Tri-Nations later in the day on Shaka Zulu’s big screens. A mere £20 gets you the braai buffet (the sight of the menu reduced Jan to tears), the beer will be particularly inexpensive, and the gees proudly South African all day. It’s no wonder that Jan Braai are very much excited.

When: Saturday 4 September
Time: 12pm (Springbok victory begins at 4pm)
Where: Shaka Zulu, Chalk Farm Road, Camden
Cost: £20 for braai buffet (boerewors & chutney, chicken sosaties, lamb chops, rump steak with beer braaivleis basting sauce, hot cheese & potato salad, green leaf salad & mustard dressing, grilled corn, koeksisters)
Google map directions: click here
Tube station: Camden

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Braai with us in London

By Jan Braai | Published August 30, 2010

On Saturday morning 4 September myself and Braai4Heritage ambassador Dan Nicholl will arrive at Heathrow airport in London for the UK leg of the Soutie Braai Outreach Program (the SBOP). As many know, Braai4Heritage is about creating an annual day of celebration for South Africa. But you know this because the media tells you about it. The beauty of the Braai4Heritage celebration is that it falls on a public holiday, National Heritage Day. But this is not the case in other countries, so sometimes its difficult to celebrate there, as 24 September might be in the middle of the week. And we all know the poor guys in London work long hours. But this year 24 September falls on a Friday. So there is more than enough time to braai. And that is why we are heading over to London this weekend. To go and drum up support and raise awareness for National Braai Day on 24 September.

As much braaied meat as you can eat. This Saturday in London.

From 12:00 on Saturday 4 September there will be a braai at Shaka Zulu restaurant in Camden. For 20 pounds you can eat as much braaivleis* as you want. And they will have beers on special as well. There will also be a big screen showing how the Springboks “pleiser die Wallabies”. (In the words of Francois Hougaard). If you are a South African, and you are in London, please come and join us. If you are not a South African, but always wished you were, come and join us as well, and pretend you are.

If you are on Facebook, you can join the event page of this braai, and help us invite the other South Africans in London as well.

*Update. Shaka Zulu emailed us the final menu for the braai buffet on Saturday: Boerewors & chutney; Chicken Sosaties; Lamb chops; Rump steak with beer braaivleis basting sauce; Hot cheese & potato salad; Green leaf salad & mustard dressing; Grilled corn; Koeksisters

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How to help us spread the word

By Jan Braai | Published August 27, 2010

Braai4Heritage is about creating a common day of celebration in South Africa. All you need to do is light a fire and braai on 24 September every year. You can also call it the annual day of party in South Africa. The full mission statement can be found here. To get this message to every citizen in the country is a full time job. Tonight I am attending a dinner called the “27 Dinner” which is basically a get together for powerful, influential nerds. Nerd being used in the cool sense of the word. The organisers have allowed me the opportunity to give a short talk on Braai4Heritage and what the idea behind National Braai Day is. What I also want to ask these influential people, is to use their influence and help in mobilising 50 million people around braai fires on 24 September. Here is how everyone can help (whether you are a nerd or not):

If you have friends, tell them about it, and organise a braai for all of them on 24 September.
If you have a blog, write about it, and encourage your readers to braai on 24 September.
If you are on Facebook, become a fan of our Facebook page, and invite all your Facebook friends to be fans as well (this is a really stupid and obvious, but amazingly effective way in which to help).
If you are on Twitter, re-tweet my braaiday propaganda.
If you are a journalist, write an article about braaiday, preferably on the front page.
If you are a radio DJ, talk about braaiday on air with your listeners.
If you are a TV presenter, just mention it. Somewhere in your program, with a call to action.

None of the above is rocket science, and none of the above will cost you a cent. You do not need to donate money, you do not need to go to lectures, you do not need to stand in queues. To help us is easy, and free. And to take part in braaiday is even easier. All you need to do is have fun on 24 September. Simple as that.

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