Getting the best from biltong, and making money. Started as a hobby, biltong-making now provides a living for Parys man Searle Sacks, who has an SA Mutton Merino farm overlooking the Vaal River.
A hunter and farmer at heart, Sacks experimented with biltong when in his 20s and decided there was room for improvement.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary describes this traditional South African fare as strips of sun-dried meat, but the Cape farmers trekking north 150 years ago called it bil (the buttock from which it is cut) tong