THE final countdown blares from the speakers and the crowd buzzes with excitement, cheering an exhausted and sunburned Gielie Basson as he triumphantly lifts his 95th piece of boerewors from the coals to complete an 84-hour-long braai.
Gielie has spent the better part of four days in front of this braai at the Zamani Grill in Calitzdorp near Oudtshoorn and not even swollen ankles, a thunderstorm and barely any sleep could sway him from his mission: smashing the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest braai.
His marathon surpassed the 80-hour record held by South African Jan Greeff who
