Press Release

News release 

23 April 2013

BEST BUTCHERIES ANNOUNCED

Results revealed in competition to find South Africa’s top butcheries

Johannesburg, 23 April 2013: The country’s top butchers are certainly worth their beef. The best butcheries both nationally and regionally were announced at a luncheon today attended by senior members of the meat production and retail industry, award finalists, judges and media.

The Cleaver Awards were launched in 2005 to meet the needs of the consumer by raising standards amongst butcheries. Since these awards started eight year ago, butchery standards have significantly improved and feedback from consumers show that the majority perceive the Cleaver Awards to be a seal of approval. An initiative of the South African Red Meat Industry Forum,  these Awards acknowledge butcheries which meet consumer expectations on in-store hygiene, the supply of quality assured roller marked South African Beef, their level of competency in offering the best advice on meal preparations and perceived value for money.

 Butchers were judged according to three categories namely;

1. Butcheries with four or more till points,
2. Butcheries with three or fewer till points and,
3. Food market / Supermarket butcheries

 Nominations were opened towards the end of last year for consumers around the country to vote and nominate their best butchery.

The winners in each category received Platinum Awards and the runners up Gold Awards

 REGIONAL WINNERS:

 LIMPOPO

Butcheries with four or more till points:                

• Vleis lapa  , Groblerstraat , Polokwane  - Gold
• Vleis lapa , Marshallstraat , Polokwane - Platinum

 MPUMALANGA

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Alan’s Butchery, Kerkstraat, Ermelo - Gold
• Kanhym Fresh Meat Deli , Middelburg - Platinum

 Meat Markets:

·         Saveway Super Spar  , Witbank - Gold

·         The Grove Super Spar, Nelspruit - Platinum

 FREE STATE

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Koepel Vleismark , Parys - Gold
• Sparta Butchery , Welkom - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                  

• Biltong & Braai , Kroonstad -Gold                
• Fredilia Meat, Welkom - Platinum

 Meat Markets:

• Checkers Langenhoven Park, Bloemfontein - Gold
• Pick n Pay , Preller Walk, Bloemfontein - Platinum

 EASTERN CAPE

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:                 

• Heydenrychs , Sydenham, PE -  Gold
• Hansons , Mount Pleasant , PE - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                 

• Crave Meats, East London – Platinum

 Meat Markets:

• Our Super Spar, Walmer , PE - Gold
• Sunridge Super Spar,  PE -  Platinum

 NORTHERN CAPE

 Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Smitties Quality Meat, Kuruman- Gold
• Kokis Meat Market, Kimberley - Platinum

 NORTH WEST

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Beesland , Vryburg - Gold
• Uitkyk Slaghuis, Lichtenburg - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                 

• Goudkop Slaghuis , Klerksdorp - Gold
• Impala Vleis , Brits - Platinum

 WESTERN CAPE

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Stilbaai Slaghuis ,  Stilbaai - Gold
• Tollies Slaghuis , Hartenbos -  Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                   

• Excellent Meats , Elsiesrivier – Platinum
• Meat Market   Checkers Cape Gate, Brackenfell - Platinum

 KWAZULU NATAL

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:                 

• Grobbies Butchery, Bluff , Durban - Gold
• Dirks Butchery , Glenwood, Durban - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                   

• Bluff Meats, Bluff, Durban - Gold
• Bluff Meats , Pinetown - Platinum

 Meat Markets:

• Super Spar Shelly Beach - Gold
• Checkers Hyper Pavilion, Westville , Durban - Platinum

 GAUTENG

Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• Ziman Meats, Randfontein - Gold
• Roodt Meat , Florida - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:                 

• Hokaai Meat, Centurion - Gold
• United Muslim Butchery, Mayfair - Platinum

 Meat Markets:

• Karaglen Super Spar, Edenglen - Gold
• Pick n Pay, Waverly, Pretoria - Gold
• Uitkyk Vleis en Supermark -  Platinum

 NATIONAL WINNERS

 Butcheries with three or fewer till points:

• West End Vleismark , Kimberley - Gold
• Frank’s Meat, Middelburg - Platinum

 Butcheries with four or more till points:

• Berliner Grill and Deli, Northriding              Gold
• Boma Vleismark. Moreletapark                   Platinum

 Meat Markets:

• Super Spar Newton Park, PE - Gold
• Super Spar Malmesbury - Platinum

 First prize winners in each national category received a R 20 000 cash prize and a Platinum Trophy Award. The runners up received a R 10 000 cash prize as well as 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 R1 500 hamper of beef products from the winning butcher.

 ssued on behalf of the South African Red Meat Industry by The Write Agency

Contact Leigh Hopewell on (011) 513 3445/ 083 264 6563 or at leigh@thewriteagency.co.za

ARE YOU COMPLIANT WITH THE STOCK THEFT LEGISLATION?

 

The Red Meat Industry Forum urges all industry role-players to co-operate to help prevent stock theft.

Stock theft stripped the economy of R430 million during the 2011/2012 period with goats to the value of R42 million, sheep to the value of R92 million and cattle to the value of R295 million stolen. This scourge threatens both the commercial farming sector as well as the emergent farming sector in most of the country.

The increase in stock theft cannot be attributed only to the activities of the Stock theft Units, but also to the non-compliance by industry role-players who do not see that livestock are properly identified. Livestock buyers; such as farmers, speculators, stock-auctions, feedlots and abattoirs can be or are unknowingly recipients of stolen livestock and are thereby transgressing the law and liable for a fine or prosecution.

The Animal Identification Act, (Act 6 of 2002), makes provision for the compulsory marking of livestock and the Stock theft Act, (Act 57 of 1959) controls the movement of livestock. Both these Acts have been put in place to support the industry and SAPS to combat stock theft and make it easier to recover stolen livestock. It appears that a large part of the livestock trade does not comply by the provisions of these Acts and does not comply with the basic requirements to prevent stock theft. The Red Meat Industry Forum encourages its member organizations to comply with these Acts.

  “Many stock theft court cases are lost because of disputes regarding the positive identification of stolen livestock and the ability to prove ownership. If an animal is marked with a registered brand or tattoo, disputes will be avoided.” says Brig Singh (Stock theft Unit, head office).

The Red Meat Industry Forum urgently requests:

·         That all livestock owners register a unique brand mark in their name and to apply it to all livestock in their possession in the prescribed manner as described in the Animal Identification Act, (Act 6 of 2002)  

·         The completion and submission of the ‘Document of Identification’ and ‘Stock Removal Certificate’ with all transactions

·         That all livestock buyers, auctioneers, feedlots and abattoirs confirm livestock ownership and refuse to take ownership of livestock that are not marked or where the necessary ‘Document of Identification’ and ‘Stock Removal Certificate’ are not supplied

·         That all ‘Documents of Identification’ be kept on record for 12 months

  The Red Meat Industry Forum requests its member organizations to urgently play an active role in stock theft prevention and requests that the Stock theft Units strictly apply the Animal Identification Act, (Act 6 of 2002) and the Stock theft Act, (Act 57 of 1959) to all buyers of livestock as from 1 January 2013 with zero tolerance.

 Once all stakeholders as well as all the relevant government departments from national to local level become actively involved in the application of these Acts then more stock thieves will be convicted and the negative impact of stock theft on the South African Livestock Industry will be reduced.

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