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  When you choose corporate gifts to share with clients, co-workers, and collaborators, take the opportunity to share a reminder of your company's progressive social and environmental ethos. Download Corporate Gifting PDF See, at Black Mamba we are passionate about making dangerously tasty food that is good for you, good for the planet, and good for the communities we work with. This is why we are an ethical enterprise that sources produce from micro-growers who practice regenerative farming, and supports local women who help us to create our award-winning, flavourful, preservative-free hot sauces, pestos, jams and chutneys without any added nonsense....

Here are the hottest hacks we received from our community of ethical foodies and braai enthusiasts – put them to good use around the coals! Adding flavour to your flame foods Add Worcestershire Sauce to your meat marinade it adds to the flavour of any meat!~ Crystal Amon  Secret: Marinate your meat overnight this allows for the marinade to soak into the meat making it filled with aroma flavour, taste succulent and tender when braaied.~ Anu Naidoo Hubby’s secret ingredient is lemon juice rosemary and Worcestershire sauce, oh wow your meat is always so tender and juicy~ Erica Van Der...

Black Mamba has won new awards and nothing makes us happier! This time, our Cayenne Chilli Sauce, our XXXtra Hot Peri-Peri Chilli Sauce and our Basil & Cayenne Pesto have won Gold Awards, and our Chipotle Chilli Sauce has won a Silver Award, at the fourth annual Aurora International Taste Challenge that took place in August 2022 near Stellenbosch, South Africa. The Aurora International Taste Challenge was created to celebrate and pay tribute to universal food quality, and recognises and awards food product excellence. Some of the best food and drinks industry professionals in South Africa were invited to judge,...

Ndumi, as she is affectionately known by the Black Mamba team,  joined us back in 2016. Claudia (CEO) confesses, “I don’t remember the interview in detail, only that she had an outstanding personality that grabbed my attention and I knew she was the right choice.”  Ndumi remembers it a little differently! When she arrived that day, there were two other candidates -  beautifully made-up, elegantly dressed women, quite the contrast to Ndumi’s very casual dress. After the interview process was complete she recalls that Claudia mentioned that her casual outfit won her over. Being ready to go and comfortable is...

Welcome back to Hot Sauce History! We hope you’re ready for a whirlwind trip through, give or take, 7000 years of chilli history and the countries and cultures that shaped it. We begin many, many years ago in an Aztec village far away… The BCs 7000 BC Aztec cities are the stuff of fantasy, and everything we learn about their lives and habits seems to make them even more mysterious. We do know they cultivated chillies and we know they made the first ever hot sauce: ground-up chillies mixed with water and herbs. Chillies were definitely a lifestyle for the...

Our Black Mamba Pineapple Chilli Sauce won at the Great Taste awards in the UK! The Great Taste Awards, kind of like the Oscars of food, celebrates the very best in food and drink in the UK. Out of more than 12.000 products, our Pineapple Chilli Sauce won a coveted star. Judges praised our pineapple chilli sauce as "packed with fresh pineapple flavour with just the right level of heat” and wonderful ripe pineapple notes and the promised tropical flavours.” This is of course what you get when you work with real, fresh, organically grown produce and no added nonsense. The fact...