SOUTH AFRICA. – What happens when the creator of one of Afrikaans's best-known cartoon trade marks teams up with one of South Africa's best-known braai personalities? The result is JanBraai/Idees vol vrees, Kobus Galloway's new Idees vol vrees book created in collaboration with Jan Braai.
The book will be published in September 2026 by Penguin Books South Africa and brings Jan Braai's world of fire, meat and South African braai culture into Galloway's distinctive world of wordplay and sharp Afrikaans humour.
The paperback edition consists of 160 pages and has a recommended retail price of R240.
Braai meets Idees vol vrees
The premise is simple: certain things just belong together. Pap and sausage. Curry and rice. Brandy and rugby. And in this case, sharp humour and a good braai fire.
Jan Braai brings his well-known love of fire, meat and South Africa to the collaboration while Galloway provides the humour and creative world for which Idees vol vrees has become known.
The result is not a traditional recipe book, but rather a tongue-in-cheek celebration of braai culture and the well-known South African moments that unfold around a fire.
Just in time for Heritage Month
The book appears during Heritage Month, a particularly fitting time for a collaboration involving Jan Braai.
Jan Braai has been driving the initiative for two decades to bring South Africans together around braai fires on 24 September, Heritage Day.
He is the author of nine bestselling recipe books that have been translated into various languages and published internationally and presents the television programme Jan Braai for Heritage on kykNET and Showmax. The programme is currently in its fifteenth season.
Inside Kobus Galloway's Idees vol vrees book
Galloway is the creator and owner of Idees vol vrees, the Afrikaans cartoon trade mark and book series known for its wordplay and recognisable South African humour.
He works in Cape Town as an illustrator and infographic designer for Media24's weekly publications and also performs as a comedian.
In JanBraai/Idees vol vrees Galloway brings Jan Braai into the world of Idees vol vrees and two distinctly South African voices are brought together between the same book covers.
Book details
JanBraai/Idees vol vrees is by Kobus Galloway in collaboration with Jan Braai.
The paperback edition has ISBN 9781432312473 and the book is also available as an e-book.
More on JanBraai/Idees vol vrees at Penguin Random House SA
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This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
