It's back, and it's better! Tender, aged beef now in stock
After months of dealing with unreliable suppliers, we are absolutely delighted to announce that we have found a reliable supplier of top-quality beef. Their steaks are Australia's best: Try it, and we're sure you'll agree.
From Thursday, 10 February 2011, we will be stocking rump steak that carries the Certified Angus Beef seal. This means that the meat comes from Angus cattle that have been produced to exacting specifications. The cattle are grain fed on cereal grain for a minimum of 120 days. And best of all, the supplier guarantees consistently high quality beef.
The meat has a minimum marble score of 1+.
From the Riverine Premium Beef range we will be stocking sirloin, rump and fillet steaks.
What is Riverine Premium Beef?
Produced exclusively from high quality grain fed Bos Taurus cattle
Bred, finished and processed in southern Australia
Purchased directly from selected breeders
Mean processing age of 30 months
Mimimum marble score of 2+
Riverine Premium Beef and Certifified Angus Beef promise to deliver a great eating experience, every time.
All the beef we stock has been aged for approximately 28 days prior to packaging. We vacuum pack our meat to seal in the freshness.
Prices per kg
Rump - $21.99
Sirloin - $29.99
Fillet - $39.99
Kingklip
Remember to look in our freezer section for succulent Kingklip fillets, at $29.99/kg.
It’s only 12 days ‘til Christmas, but most of us are still scurrying around for last-minute gifts. Fortunately, your local African Heritage shop has great gifts for everyone.
Over the festive period our opening hours will be as follows:
Friday, 24 December
10am to 5pm
Saturday, 25 to Tuesday, 28 December
Closed
Wednesday, 29 & Thursday, 30 December
10am to 6.30pm
Friday, 31 December
10am to 5pm
Saturday, 1 to Tuesday, 4 January
Closed
Sweet things
This year, why don’t you let us take care of the Christmas dessert? Call us to order your freshly made milk tarts ($12.99), or bring in your own container and we will whip up a decadent Peppermint Crisp tart. (Please phone ahead if you want to take up this offer.) Alternatively, buy one of our generously sized Peppermint Crisp tarts for $14.99.
We always have Sophie’s Choice koeksisters (crisp on the outside and oh so juicy on the inside) and Just Cakes koeksisters (soft, bite-sized) in stock at $8.99 a packet.
Christmas Fruit Cakes: Moist and fruity, beautifully decorated Christmas cakes are available for $25 each. The perfect gift!
Christmas hampers
Biltong Hampers
Half a kg of sliced biltong, decoratively wrapped in a bowl. Choose your own bowl: plain white, silver and white Royal Doulton, or an African-themed bowl. Available on Thursday, 23 and Friday, 24 December. Cost: $28.
Fudge on Christmas plate
Because the fudge is freshly made, these gifts will only be available from 20 to 24 December, at $18 for eight pieces of fudge on a beautiful Christmas plate.
Make your own hamper
Choose your own goodies (minimum value of $30), and we will present it in a festive hamper. Think of all the treats you may want to add – koeksisters, rusks, biltong, and so much more. If you are strapped for time, you may wish to phone ahead and order a custom made hamper.
Please call our Duncraig shop (9246 7444) or our Clarkson shop (9408 6655) to pre-order any of the above-mentioned hampers.
Gift vouchers
Our gift vouchers are available throughout the year, but are particularly popular for Christmas. We do not know of any South African who would not love to receive an African Heritage gift voucher this Christmas.
African tablecloths
We have a love range of brightly coloured tablecloths, which would make the perfect Christmas present. Marked down from $65 to $49.
Contributions collected for Zimbabwean boy, Jordan Pittaway
We are delighted to report that we have been able to send Jordan’s parents a sum of almost $1,300. This would not have been possible without your generous contributions. Thank you so much.
Norman’s on the mend
As most of you might know, Norman has had a double hip replacement at the end of November, and he has just been discharged from hospital. To all our loyal customers, thanks for your kind thoughts and words of encouragement. We, as a family and the African Heritage staff, appreciate your continued support.
We wish you all a really great Christmas, and a prosperous New Year, filled with joy and gratitude.
Until next year Norman, Margie, & the African Heritage team
In two months' time we will once again be celebrating Christmas with family and friends. This year African Heritage can help to make life a bit easier over the festive season.
Most of us would rather have a braai on Christmas day than cook a hot meal in an even hotter kitchen. That’s why you need to order you rump and sirloin steaks well in advance, so that Norman can ensure that the best cuts are “ripened” and ready for you to enjoy at Christmas time. Call 9246 7444 to place your order.
Some of you may have noticed that we now regularly feature trays with plump, juicy oxtail cuts. Although oxtail stew is traditionally considered a winter dish, South Africans love a potjie, and oxtail is the ideal meat for a superb potjie at any time of the year.
New tablecloths to be available soon
A selection of Christmas-themed tablecloths will soon be available in our shops.
Gifts: If you are looking for the perfect Christmas gift, you need to look no further. Apart from the biscuits and biltong, which are always welcome gifts, we also stock beautiful jewellery, lots of African curios, gorgeous soapstone bowls, books, CDs, and DVDs.
Hot take-aways on Fridays and Saturdays
Friday night is vetkoek-and-mince night. Phone ahead to place your order, and pick up your hot vetkoek on the way home from work. You can ask to have the vetkoek wrapped separately, and the mince placed in a separate container, if you wish.
We bake a fresh batch of vetkoek on the Saturday morning (there are no stale left-overs from a previous day’s batch). Order it with mince, or try a sweet vetkoek with butter and delectable Lyle’s golden syrup (which we also stock).
At $5 each (for vetkoek and mince) this must be the best value for money take-away in town.
We are delighted to report that the few isolated hiccups with our chicken and lamb curries have been sorted out. We have now standardised the recipes, and therefore every batch should produce the same high-quality, genuine Durban-curry taste.
Coffee corner in our Clarkson shop
We are cautiously optimistic that we shall have a coffee shop up and running in our Clarkson shop before Christmas. After a lengthy run-around to comply with City Council regulations, we shall soon be able to provide hot take-aways at Clarkson, too.
Since we opened our first African Heritage shop in July 2009, we have set out to foster a community spirit. The new Clarkson coffee corner will create new opportunities for our customers to get together in a lovely, sunny space, free of charge.
We therefore invite you to make use of this space to host get-togethers with your friends and colleagues. You can arrange meetings, book club get-togethers, workshops, swap meets, and other social functions, and all you need to do is book well in advance to reserve a time. Please mention any catering requirements you may have for the day, so that we can ensure we have enough stock of koeksisters, lemon meringues, or whatever else you might require.
Stacks of new DVDs and CDs are now in stock
Newly arrived is the long awaited Leon Schuster DVD, Schuks Tshababala’s Survival Guide to South Africa. The film was created to coincide with the 2010 FIFA World Cup which was held in South Africa.
Schuks Tshabalala (Leon Schuster) and Shorty (Alfred Ntombela) produced this survival guide to assist tourists attending the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They introduce a group of tourists from Germany, Ireland, Greece, China, France, India and The Netherlands to life in South Africa – as “re-imagined” by Tshabalala and Shorty.
This would make a great Christmas gift.
You can watch a short extract from the DVD.
New stock expected by the end of October
We constantly receive small quantities of new stock, but the mother lode is expected to arrive within a week or two. We will keep you posted.
Until next month Norman, Margie & the African Heritage team
Spring is upon us, and the distinctive aroma of wors on the barbie is once again starting to linger in the evening air. Make sure you are ready for this summer with your favourite braai equipment. We now stock an assortment of CADAC equipment to use with your existing equipment, such as barbeque grills, skottelbraais, pizza stones and lifters, rib racks, paella pans, and roast pans and stands. We even stock CADAC cylinder adaptor hoses.
We also stock a variety of traditional potjies.
Of course, you would need the best wors for the perfect evening with friends, or to treat the family. Our traditional wors and chutney wors remain bestsellers, but Norman surprises us all every now and then with sosatie wors. Grab a tray when you see it on the shelf.
New stock
While our new shipment is being processed, we have managed to share an "emergency" container with a few other local importers. (Yes, in Perth quite a few people seem to regard Flings and Cheese Curls as emergency supplies. We should have enough of these to last until our next shipment arrives.)
To help clear the shelves in preparation for the new stock, we have discounted several items. Some biscuits, including Lemon Creams, Tuc, Jolly Jammers and Whirls, have been marked down to $2.90 per packet.
Please drop in to see what other bargains there are to be had.
Koeksisters: After receiving numerous requests, we now also stock Sophie's Choice koeksisters, in addition to the Just Cakes koeksisters.
Events page
We have added a separate page to this site where customers can advertise forthcoming events free of charge, as long as the event has a South African connection. South Africans enjoy supporting each other, and this is the ideal place to advertise events where we can all meet up again.
Our “Cookies and More” connection
A substantial selection of our products are now sold through Cookies and More in Malaga. While you are there, you would might also like to stock up on their products.
You will recognise many of the products they supply to the top coffee shops in Perth; these products are available Cookies and More at wholesale prices.
Address: Unit 5, 321 Victoria Road, Malaga Phone: 9248 2122
Donations for Jordan Pittaway
In last month’s newsletter we reported on Jordan’s recovery, and asked for donations to help his family. Jordan is an 11 year old boy from Zimbabwe who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The tumor was removed earlier this year, but the family was left with enormous medical bills.
We are delighted to inform you that the donation tin next to the cash register in our Duncraig shop has yielded a total of $487.25, which will be sent to Jordan’s parents shortly.
The tin in our Clarkson shop is almost ready to be emptied and counted. We will keep donation tins in both shops until the end of the year, and we will keep you informed of Jordan’s progress, and of the amount raised in our shops.
We welcome your comments
As always, we would like to receive your suggestions and comments on how to improve our products and service. We would also like to hear your views on the newsletters.
Until next time Norman, Margie, and the African Heritage team
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Ons beskuit is 'n treffer Vandat ons 'n paar maande gelede begin het om tuisgebakte beskuit te verkoop, kon ons beswaarlik voorbly met die bakwerk. Groter oonde en vele hande later is ons verheug om te kan sê ons hou nou 'n stewige beskuitvoorraad aan.
Ons bak beskuit vir elke smaak. Sommige klante verkies die Karringmelk beskuit bo die Muesli. Ander hou weer meer van die Nuttywheat. Die pakkies is klein genoeg sodat julle al die verskillende soorte kan proe.
You never have to go without rusks again
The Rusks are sold in packets of 10, and are priced as follows:
Buttermilk - $4.20
Nuttywheat & All Bran - $4.40
Muesli - $4.60
The Best Florentines
We have discovered the best florentines at a chain of well-known coffee shops in Perth, and decided that we simply had to stock these florentines too.
These are biscuits that can mend a rift between friends, show a partner exactly how much you love him or her, or be used to bribe children to clean their rooms.
Single Florentines (100g) - $2
Pack of six Florentines - $9
Jordan needs your help
Jordan Pittaway is an 11 year old boy from Zimbabwe, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. On 29 May this year, the tumor was removed in the Muelmed Hospital in Pretoria.
Jan and Cath Kirstein send us this picture of Jordan, taken after the operation. He is reported to be recouperating.
Needless to say, the operation and treatment have almost completely depleted the family's funds. His parents, Ray and Theresa, are barely coping with Jordan's medical bills, and their private medical aid only covers a fraction of the costs.
We are now appealing to our customers for donations to help Jordan and his family. You can help in one of the following ways:
Deposit donations into ABSA Bank
Account name: Global
Account number: 9144990005
Account type: Savings Account
Code: 632005
Swift Code: ABSA za jj
Drop a coin or two into the savings tin next to the cash registers in one of our two stores.
Jordan has a facebook group where you can view more details. Please contact Kim Grigoratos on 0416 381 965 or 9307 7934 if you need further information.
We will keep you posted on Jordan's recovery process.
