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Cleaver Awards pinpoint best butcheries in SA

Last week saw the announcement of the best butcheries, both nationally and regionally, in the latest Cleaver Awards. The awards, launched in 2005, are an initiative of the South African Red Meat Industry Forum and have seen butchery standards significantly improve and consumer feedback indicate that the awards are seen as a seal of approval.

Butchers were judged according to three categories; butcheries with four or more till points, butcheries with three or fewer till points and food market/supermarket butcheries. The winners in each category received Platinum Awards and the runners up Gold Awards.


RegionAwardButcheries with three or fewer till pointsButcheries with four or more till pointsMeat Markets
National winnersGoldWest End Vleismark KimberleyBerliner Grill and Deli NorthridingSuper Spar Newton Park Port Elizabeth
PlatinumFrank's Meat MiddelburgBoma Vleismark Moreleta ParkSuper Spar Malmesbury
LimpopoGoldVleis lapa Groblerstraat Polokwane
PlatinumVleis lapa Marshallstraat Polokwane
MpumalangaGoldAlan's Butchery Kerkstraat ErmeloSaveway Super Spar Witbank
PlatinumKanhym Fresh Meat Deli MiddelburgThe Grove Super Spar Nelspruit
Free StateGoldKoepel Vleismark ParysBiltong & Braai KroonstadCheckers Langenhoven Park Bloemfontein
PlatinumSparta Butchery WelkomFredilia Meat WelkomPick n Pay Preller Walk Bloemfontein
Eastern CapeGoldHeydenrychs Sydenham, Port ElizabethOur Super Spar Walmer Port Elizabeth
PlatinumHansons Mount Pleasant Port ElizabethCrave Meats East LondonSunridge Super Spar Port Elizabeth
Northern CapeGoldSmitties Quality Meat Kuruman
PlatinumKokis Meat Market Kimberley
North WestGoldBeesland VryburgGoudkop Slaghuis Klerksdorp
PlatinumUitkyk Slaghuis LichtenburgImpala Vleis Brits
Western CapeGoldStilbaai Slaghuis Stilbaai
PlatinumTollies Slaghuis HartenboExcellent Meats ElsiesrivierCheckers Cape Gate Brackenfell
KwaZulu-NatalGoldGrobbies Butchery Bluff DurbanBluff Meats Bluff DurbanSuper Spar Shelly Beach
PlatinumDirks Butchery Glenwood DurbanBluff Meats PinetownCheckers Hyper Pavilion Westville Durban
GautengGoldZiman Meats RandfonteinHokaai Meat CenturionKaraglen Super Spar Edenglen
Pick n Pay Waverly Pretoria
PlatinumRoodt Meat FloridaUnited Muslim Butchery MayfairUitkyk Vleis en Supermark Silverton

Prizes

Winners in each national category received a R20,000 cash prize and a Platinum Trophy Award. The runners up received R10,000 cash prize and a Gold Cleaver Award Trophy.

All of the provincial winners received either a Platinum or Gold Cleaver Award Trophy in their category. Three consumers who nominated the three National Platinum winners each received a voucher for a R1500 hamper of beef products from the winning butcher.

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