Gauteng, South Africa

South Africa

South Africa's most densely populated province, centred on Johannesburg and Pretoria. Gauteng is the commercial engine of the country and the place where droëwors is most widely sold, stocked in butcheries, petrol station forecourts, farm stalls, and airport shops. The province draws migrants from every corner of southern Africa, and the appetite for dried meat snacks runs deep across all of them.

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Sausages from Gauteng, South Africa

Droëwors

Droëwors

Gauteng, South Africa

Droëwors is the dried version of boerewors: a thin beef sausage stuffed into narrow casings and hung in dry air for several days until firm, dark, and reduced to a fraction of its original weight. The name is Afrikaans for 'dry sausage'. No smoke, no heat, just airflow. The coriander dominates every bite, toasted and cracked before mixing, and the concentrated beef and fat hold the spice in a dense, chewy structure. South Africans eat droëwors as a snack at rugby matches, on road trips, at braais, and out of paper bags at airport shops on the way home.

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