This section is a directory of places to shop for vegans in South Africa. The shops and stores listed here stock the broadest range of vegan products available that we can find for each region.
Free Food's quality, conscious meal options have featured in all great health stores since 2007. Free Food has moved its production to more suitable premises - they'll continue making your favourite convenient meals, best quality vegan burgers, wheat/gluten free pizza bases/wraps and Cocoa Cocoons.
Check out the week's 3 specials, tell them what you would like to eat. Talk to them about catering opportunities, collect a take-out, grab something savoury or sweet from the "in it-on it-with it" deli fridge, visit the freezer (see their BULK-BUY discounts), stock up on your favourite meals and please try their best vegan F**k ice cream.
Warning! The ice cream is dangerously good. Once you have had it, you will want to go back often for more... Liezl, Johannesburg, liezlt@gmail.com, 6 March 2013, 5:39 am
Fresh Earth Food Store
Fresh Earth actively supports organic farming and sustainable retailing and stocks a wide range of products, from organic baby food, cereals, nuts and seeds, dried fruits, pastas, sauces, spices, confectionery, breads, frozen home meals, organic fruit and vegetables and biscuits, to books, magazines and CD's.
They have a full range of nutraceuticals, herbal remedies, tinctures and oils, natural and organic soaps and lotions on offer. Assistance in product selection is always on hand from well-trained, passionate staff lead by nutritional chef Matthew Ballenden.
A large shop in the heart of Johannesburg, Gauteng, that caters for all the needs of both vegetarians and vegans. This is supported by a wonderful vegetarian restaurant that caters for vegans.
Gingko offer an extensive array of gluten free, sucrose free, dairy free, and vegan foods which are just as delicious as everything else they make. They believe that ‘good food’ is the kind of food which gives pleasure to the senses and sustenance to the body. In other words, it is food which is both delicious and nutritious that restores both body and spirit.
Their food is prepared using fresh, whole ingredients of the best quality, without preservatives or colourants, and with as much organic content as possible.
Purveyors of exotic gourmet mushrooms. They sell a large variety of gourmet mushrooms as well as mushroom risotto packs, herbs for mushrooms and dried mushroom products.
Natural Life offers vitamins, homeopathic remedies, herbal teas, health food, organic cosmetics and other health products, with a wide selection of vegan options - African Organics, Enchantrix, Kiss My Face, Pure Beginnings, Victorian Garden.
Customers can also take a seat and enjoy a healthy vegan meal and refreshments.
Nuts About Life grew out of the need for the best quality dried fruit, nuts, herbs and spices (no sulphur dioxide), and these are often either naturally grown or organically certified. Their fruit is suphur dioxide free. Locally grown is sought before any other.
Nuts About Life can be found at Bryanston Organic and Natural Market. Alternatively, you can now also order online from the comfort of your home.
Wensleydale Organics grows and distributes organic fruit and vegetables and packs a wide variety of certified organic dry goods which are available in Pick n Pay stores throughout South Africa and in selected health shops and delicatessens.
They have a stall at the Bryanston Organic Market, Culross Road, Johannesburg, which is open every Thursday and Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm.
Wensleydale provides vegetable box home delivery in the Jo'burg, Centurion and Tshwane areas, as well as online shopping too.
If you have a vegan-friendly store (or you know of a shop that is) and you would like to be listed here, we'll gladly reward you with a free listing. Please contact us now to get your vegan-friendly business listed and help promote veganism in South Africa.