Do you remember the days when we used to boil our veggies to a pulp, pouring out all those amazing juices? Luckily we know better today and steaming is obviously the way to go. If you’ve already got some food cooking on the stove, that steam is more than enough to cook your veggies perfectly and that is where this Staub New Classic Cast Iron Round Cocotte with Steamer insert comes into its own. We already know the benefits of a cast iron pot, but this one is so much more. Besides retaining distributing heat evenly, this Staub Cocotte features a lid design to evenly drip moisture back over the food, the lid keeps in 9 times more moisture, and it comes with a steamer insert.

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Enter: Win a Staub Cocotte worth R3 910

Just in time for our newsletter (which you should really subscribe to so you don’t miss out) we found you two awesome competitions to enter. As we’re heading into winter, we’ll need some clothes to keep us warm on those cold and miserable days and for some, this is the perfect opportunity to seriously dress up. Now a trip to the shops to go winter clothing shopping can be an expensive outing so a R5000 Soviet voucher in hand should soften the blow a little and get you dressed in style. If you’re winter cupboard still needs a few items to get you through the next couple of months, then this is for you. Soviet is giving away a Soviet fashion voucher, valued at R5,000! So if you’re in need of some superstylin’, get movin’

Enter: Win a Soviet Fashion Voucher

To win a car must be the most incredible thing and very soon, someone will experience the enormous pleasure of driving off in a brand new car, the new VW Golf mark 7. The new Golf which has only recently arrived on our shores is now up for grabs and entering is a piece of pie. All you need to do for your chance at winning this car is to click on ‘enter’ below to go and answer an easy question. You can also enter more than once so click on through and find out what you need to do. It really is that simple!  Tell us what you like about the new Golf and where you would choose to take it for it’s first ride in the comments below.

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Enter: Win the new Golf 7

By now you’ve surely heard about Rubybox’s beauty boxes. They’re every girls dream. They’re filled with little bits of fashion and beauty joy and can include anything from trial sized beauty products, beauty tools like brushes, files, curlers, and just about anything else you can think of. When you sign up to Rybybox you’ll receive a beauty box each and every month. It’s a great way to learn about new products and try something new each and every month. Woman Online is giving one luck reader the chance to win a set of three of these fantastic boxes, and all you need to do for your chance to win is enter free online.

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Enter: Win three Beauty Boxes from Rubybox

Oh man, can you imagine packing your bags right now? We sure can! How amazing it would be to win this five-star Mauritius holiday for you and your partner of friend! Whether you want to chill out in the pool at the amazing Heritage Le Telfair Mauritius, lie on the beautiful tropical island beaches of Mauritius, play golf all day long or sip on cocktails and let the worries of the world pass you by, there’s something in this competition for everyone. The prize includes flights and transfers and the winners will be treated to daily breakfast and dinner and non-motorized water sports. If you can take some time off come August / September, you just have to enter this one!

Enter: Win a 5-star 7-night Mauritius holiday

It’s astonishing how many South Africans have never set foot in the Mother City and if you’re one of them, it’s time to get down there to go and see what the fuss is all about. Cape Town is one of the world’s top tourist attractions and if so many people spend the money and the time to fly overseas just to visit this beautiful city, maybe it’s time you do to. If you’d love to visit Cape Town and can do with a break, we’ve got just the thing for you. DStv is offering one of their lucky subscribers and a partner a fabulous 2-night stay at the amazing 5 Star Taj Cape Town Hotel including flights, transfers and a jam-packed itinerary. Also included is a visit to the Good Food & Wine Show where you will experience the ultimate VIP experience and witness Gordon Ramsay.

Enter: Win a Cape Town getaway for two

Anyone that needs to travel for work knows just how important it is to have access to your email and documents wherever you are and most probably have a laptop to stay connected. Laptops aren’t just great for work thought. You can take your music, photos and movies with you when going away on holiday and of course, also use it to check into Facebook now and then. Besides using it for fun, it is essential for every child growing up to have access to a computer at home. Not only will it help a great deal getting those school projects completed but they will also learn how to use a computer from a young age. If its time you upgrade from that old PC, go and enter now for your chance to win this Samsung Series 9 Notebook worth R14 999.

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Enter: Win a Samsung Notebook

In one of the biggest cash giveaways we’ve ever featured on WinStuff, you stand a chance of winning an incredible R50 000 to spend on whatever your heart desires. With this type of money you can really start doing big things! Maybe it’s time to finally trade in your car for something a little shinier, or buy your first car for that matter. You could go on an overseas trip and go and explore the places you’ve only ever dreamt of going to. Maybe it’s time to take the family on that island holiday, or that pleasure cruise. What would you do if you won R50 000 cash? To win money like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so go and enter now!

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Enter: Win R50 000 cash

We’re giving away R5 000 cash to a lucky subscriber of our new free Consumer Offers newsletter where we will showcase selected products and services from our carefully chosen and trusted providers. We realize that you probably receive a lot of email already, many of them you never even asked for, but ours is a little different. We’ll focus on products and services that you may never have heard of but could find very useful. We also won’t bombard you with too many offers, no more than one a week and should you wish to stop receiving them you can unsubscribe with one click. To sweeten the deal a little, we’re giving away a massive cash prize of R5 000 to one of our lucky subscribers.

Terms and conditions:

• Entry is open to South African’s over the age of 18.
• Only confirmed subscribers are entered into the draw. After signing up, check your email to confirm your free registration.
• The prize is R5 000 in cash which will be paid into the winners bank account once the draw has taken place. Refusal to nominate an account for the transfer will serve as forfeit from the competition.
• Prizes not claimed within 3 months will be forfeited.
• The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• By entering this competition by signing up the the Consumer Offers newsletter, you agree to receive future correspondence from Consumer Offers and their partners. You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the footer of our email or by sending a removal request to webmaster@consumeroffers.co.za.

Enter: Win R5 000 cash

The washing machine is one of the appliances that has changed the world we live in dramatically. Considering the time it saves you and your family, it’s hard trying to imagine what life would be like without your trusty and hard-working washing machine. Speaking of trusty and hardworking, they don’t get much better that this SMEG Washing Machine worth R5,800 which you can win in this amazing online competition. So whether your washing machine is on its last legs, you don’t yet own one or if you’re moving into your own pad for the first time, this is a great opportunity to make it yours, free! Check out all our other home and leisure competitions while you’re here!

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Enter: Win a SMEG Washing Machine

Don’t you just love competitions that let you decide what to do with your winnings? We especially like those in which the prize up for grabs can either be used on something you really need or to spend on those luxuries you normally wouldn’t spend your hard-earned money on. With a R5 000 Woolies gift voucher the possibilities are endless. Whether you need to stock up your fridge, buy new clothes or shoes or even buy a few things to decorate your home with, at Woolworths you can get it all. For your chance to win, click on enter and sign up to All4Woman’s newsletter.

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Enter: Win a R5 000 Woolworths shopping voucher

Our moms are always there for us. They support us when we’re faced with a challenge. They encourage us when we’re feeling down. They constantly worry about us and even though we ask them not to, they’ll tell you it’s part of their job. For those out there that have a special mom that you can rely on and trust in, lean on and and learn from, laugh and cry with, this competition is for you. Glad is offering 100 mothers out there the chance to win Glad hampers worth R250 each, and all you need to do for your mom to stand a chance of winning this handy hamper is to tell her what she means to you. Head on over to the competition page to submit your message.

Enter: Win one of 100 Glad hampers

We’ve finally stumbled upon a competition in which you can win the new Apple iPad mini, and we hope you’re as excited as we are. The new iPad mini is just the device so many of us have waited for and now finally, it’s here. While the existing iPads are great, they’re simply too heavy to hold in one hand. When you’re watching movies in bed, or reading a book, the iPad mini is just the right size and weight to make it comfortable enough to forget about it. Which one do you prefer? The iPad or the iPad mini?

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Enter: Win an Apple iPad mini

Competitions where you can win vouchers are are great! You get to choose what you’re taking home at the end of the day, and what better shop to choose from than Woolworths. You may be surprised how far R1,500 can get you at Woolies and if you’re keen to find out, this is your chance to win a free R1,500 shopping spree at the Woolies of your choice to spend on clothes, food, shoes or a few new items for your home, the choice is yours. You need to be in it to win it so go and enter now for your chance to win.

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Enter: Win a Woolies shopping voucher worth R1,500

For those of you who want even more chances of winning online competitions, we’ve compiled the ultimate guide in finding new competitions to enter. While WinStuff is the go to guide for finding the best competitions in South Africa, we don’t cover them all, not even close. There are lots of prizes being given away that don’t make it on to our site for various reasons and in this post we’ll show you exactly where to go and how to search for fresh new chances to win. Why would we share this? Simply because we know that many of you would like to increase your chances of winning, and we’d like to show you how.  Here you go.

As you probably know, if you’re only interested in high value competitions, you don’t need to look any further than WinStuff. If there’s a big prize to be won online, you’ll find it right here. We’re so good at finding you new competitions and posting them as they become available, even our competitors use us to find new competitions for their own sites :)

Many of you still miss out on some of the competitions we post though, and there are a few ways of making sure you never miss out again. You can follow WinStuff all over the show, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you will see all our updates, or receive all our emails. There are a few things you can do to make sure that you see them all.

For our Facebook followers. If you prefer to receive your daily dose of competitions right in your newsfeed, as you may have seen in the past, there’s one more thing you need to do to make sure that you don’t only see selected posts. Facebook will not show everything we share to everyone that likes our page. In general, only around 1000 people out of the 22000 subscribers will see a post we make to our wall and there’s no doubt that you are missing out on loads of competitions we find. To make sure you see each and every post by WinStuff, you need to do one more thing, subscribe to our Facebook page. After liking the page, hover over the ‘Liked’ box and click ‘Get notifications’. By doing this you’re telling Facebook that you would like to see everything we post.

If you like many others are a little fed up with all the updates your receive on Facebook there’s an even better way to stay up to date. We send out a weekly newsletter with every new competition we found for that week. Nice and simple. Unfortunately with our newsletter there’s also one more thing to do after you subscribed. Because some of our subscribers for no apparent reason mark our emails as spam, even though they have double opted in to receive it, our weekly newsletter will be caught by some spam filters. There’s an easy way around it though and all you need to do is to simply add our email address to your address book. (webmaster@winstuff.co.za) If you do notice one of our emails in your spam box, please mark it as ‘Not Spam’. And please, if you don’t want to receive it anymore, please use the handy one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email and we’ll never bother you again :)

The third way of staying up to date is to follow us on Twitter (@winstuffsa) and lastly, you can also subscribe to our RSS feed. We recommend the awesome Feedly reader. Moving on.

So the purpose of this post is really to tell you about more ways to find competitions online, those that don’t get featured here, but we first wanted to make sure you know of all the ways to stay in touch with us. Now with that covered, here are four ways of finding competitions online.

One: Facebook ads.

Many companies now run and advertise their competitions solely on Facebook. If you already like our page or similar pages, you should see competitions being advertised on the right hand side of your newsfeed when logged in to Facebook. It’s that simple.

Two: Google

When you search Google for competitions you’ll find the usual competitions websites on the front page. But with a few tweaks you’ll discover many more websites where there’s a competition currently running. Type your search into the search box, example “win”, or “competition” and then click on the Search Tools button below the search bar. Here you will find a few options but the one you’re most interested in is the ‘Any time’ option. Click it and choose “past week” to only see results that were added in the past 7 days. Once you’ve done that, check the results. If you see too many sport websites, or anything else for that matter, start eliminating them by adding -sport or -match to the search box after your primary keyword. Keep on doing this until you see only relevant results showing up. If you’re seeing results from other countries, try using ‘The Web’ button below the search box and selecting ‘Pages from South Africa’. Play around with other keywords like “prize” and “giveaway”, you’re sure to find many more competitions you didn’t know about.

Three: Twitter

Twitter is an amazing tool for finding up to date information on just about any topic you can think of, including competitions. This tip is not only great for finding competitions. Ever wondered what events are currently on in your city? What people are saying about a certain news story? Where to find the best burger in town? Anything you can think of, you’ll find people talking about it. Let’s get back to competitions though. We know that many of you don’t use Twitter though and that’s fine, you don’t need a Twitter account to use their search engine. Give it a try. Go to http://search.twitter.com. Don’t start searching yet though, first click the ‘Advanced search’ link. This is where the real power lies. Once again, in the search box you’ll type in your search. Play around with a few primary keywords, one at a time. For example: “competition” or “win” or “giveaway”. Once you’ve typed in your keyword scroll down to Places and type either South Africa, or Jozi / JHB / Cape Town in the ‘Near this place’ field. Hit search and be amazed. It can take a couple of tries to get the most relevant results, but you’ll soon find loads and loads of prizes to be won, online and off.

Four: Google Alerts

While the first two methods are probably the best, the last one is also a great way to stay in the know. Google Alerts will notify you of new results based on a specific keyword. This can be delivered straight to your mailbox. While it will take a bit of tweaking to get it right this is a great tool and once your alert is set up and working properly, it does the work for you. A quick tip. When typing your search into the keyword field on the Alerts page, add a space after it with the text ‘site:.co.za’ at the end so that you only receive results from pages in South Africa.

So there you have it folks, four more ways for you to increase your chances of winning online competitions. Please try them and let us know what you think in the comments below. If you have even more ways of staying up to date with the latest competitions online, let us know!

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This competition is every DIYer’s dream. Men’s Health is giving away tools by some of the best in the business including Bosch, Skil and Dremel. For those that often find themselves walking up and down the power tools section at your local hardware store just aching to by yourself a brand new drill, rotary tool or saw with the thought that they may come in handy some day, or if you’re a seasoned DIYer and can do with a new set of power tools, get your entries in to win this amazing prize worth R6000. Not only will you be able to finally complete that long outstanding project at home, you’ll never again need to convince your partner that this is money well spent.

Enter: Win Bosch, Skil and Dremel tools

By now all South Africans are aware of the continued Rhino poaching going on and hopefully some of you have even contributed to raising awareness of this immense problem facing the Rhino population. It does seem that more and more people are taking responsibility in the conservation of these beautiful animals which may just turn things around and put a stop to the unnecessary slaughter of these amazing creatures. So many of us have never even seen a Rhino in real life so maybe now is the time. In this competition you can win a stay at one of the Cape’s premier wildlife destinations, Sanbona Wildlife Reserve where you’ll get a chance experience Rhinos in the wild.

Enter: Win a 2-night stay at Sanbona Wildlife Reserve

Samsung recently released the Galaxy S4, and it’s really good. The mobile phone market just got a little more interesting and while the iPhone has been the leader up until now, it’s about to face a serious challenge, keep up or lose out. With their continuous innovation Samsung is setting new trends in this space and the Galaxy S4 packs some amazing new features which should really get the competition to stand up and take notice. Not only does the new S4 offer features never heard of before like Air Gesture which allows you to control your phone without touch, with Google Play you have access to great content like music, movies, apps and games.

Enter: Win a Samsung Galaxy S4

How often do you get the chance to go on a luxury break worth R25 000? With so many clamping down on their spending, most of us are opting for staycations, nevermind luxurious getaways with three course dinners and spa treatments. If you could really do with a break but you don’t see it happening anytime soon, then you just have to enter this competition by Getaway. They’re offering one reader and a partner a two-nights’ stay at the beautiful Mount Grace Country House and Spa, worth R25 000. You’ll also be treated to breakfast, restaurant dinners and spa treatments. This prize does not include travel expenses so make sure you can get there if you win.

Enter: Win a R25k stay at Mount Grace Country House and Spa

The iPad mini hits that sweet spot when it comes to the balance between size, weight and performance. It’s light enough to hold in one hand, small enough to fit almost anywhere while still delivering super fast processing and a brilliant viewing experience. Reading the news, watching a movie, checking your email, updating your Facebook or playing games to kill the time has never been this much fun. This take-it-anywhere tablet is a must have for any family. It’s not all fun and games though. There are some great educational apps for the kids which will not only aid in their education, but will teach them to use computers from a young age.

Enter: Win an iPad mini