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Biltong is a form of air-dried, cured meat which originated in South Africa, and from there spread to other Southern African countries -- (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Zambia). Various types of meat are used to produce it, ranging from beef to game meats such as ostrich or kudu.
In 1998 the company began exporting its meat substitutes from South Africa to Australia, where its headquarters have been based since 2014. [1] [2] As of 2018 its frozen food products, which are manufactured in a custom-built factory in Durban and by a contractor in Cornwall, are sold by supermarket chains and other retailers in over 30 countries.
Combrinck & CO. was then merged into ICS. [1]: 13–15 ICS was one of the largest meat processing and distribution companies in the world. The company originally concentrated on supplying ships, but would go on to develop the first cold-storage enterprise in South Africa in conjunction with the Union and Castle shipping lines.
The San peoples were hunter-gatherers, who mostly depended on foods like tortoises, crayfish, coconuts and squash. Agriculture was introduced to South Africa by the Bantu peoples, who continue in the cultivation of grain, starch fruit and root tubers — in the manner of maize, squash and sweet potatoes, following their introduction in the Columbian exchange, displacing the production of many ...
The Swameat Corporation was established in 1986 as a state organization in charge of meat production and exports in Namibia. In 2001, it changed its name to Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco). [3] In 2003, following an EU ban on Namibian meat imports, Meatco had to return 17 containers of fresh meat to Africa. [4]
It is an important part of South African, Zimbabwean, Zambian, Botswanan, and Namibian cuisine, and is popular across Southern Africa. The name is derived from the Afrikaans words boer (literally, a farmer) and wors ('sausage'). [1] According to South African government regulation, boerewors must contain at least 90 percent meat or fat from ...
Spur Corporation Limited (JSE: SUR) is a South African restaurant company. It operates a number of franchise chains, among them Casa Bella, Panarotti's‚ RocoMamas and Spur Steak Ranches. [3] The company was founded by Allen Ambor (who is still the company's executive chairman) in 1967, [4] when he opened the Golden Spur in Newlands, Cape Town ...
The Halal pork scandal of South Africa was a scandal that broke out in South Africa in 2011 where a leading meat importer labelled pork as halal.The importer was also accused of relabelling kangaroo meat from Australia and water buffalo meat from India as halal even though South Africa's halal certification authority, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) had not approved these.