A social occasion where the focus is the cooking of meat over an open fire or coals. The local equivalent to a barbeque.

( pron. 'bry' to rhyme with 'why') The SA name for a barbecue. Can either refer to the event (eg "we're having a braai") or to a brick-built barbecue (eg "the garden has a braai").

Afrikaans Barbeque

an intensely social event, usually amongst family and friends and accompanied by gallons of beer

a social occasion and often there are specific social norms, e

a bar-bq to everyone else in the world, as far as I can work out South Africans are the only people in the world to call a bar-bq by any other name