Joubert & Monty
Cape Town, South Africa
Founded in 1942 and now running stalls in major Cape Town shopping centres including the V&A Waterfront, Canal Walk, and Cavendish Square, Joubert & Monty is one of South Africa's most recognised biltong and droëwors brands. Their droëwors comes in beef and ostrich variants, sold by weight from glass-fronted counters. Tourists and locals both queue here, and the product turns over fast enough that the droëwors is never old.
Sausages served here
Boerewors
Western Cape, South Africa
Boerewors (Afrikaans for 'farmer's sausage') is South Africa's most iconic sausage: a thick, coiled beef and pork sausage seasoned with coriander, cloves, and nutmeg. By law, it must contain at least 90% meat and no more than 30% fat. It is always cooked in its characteristic spiral shape over open coals at a braai (South African barbecue), never pricked, never straightened. Boerewors doubles as national ritual.
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.