Veld Born SA · Est 2026
The brands we carry, and why.
We don't stock everything. We stock the things we'd carry ourselves, from makers whose quality holds up over years rather than months — and we hold them in stock here in South Africa, not on a container somewhere.
Knives — The WE Family
WE Knife Co.
Authorised dealer · Flagship
WE Knife Co. is the parent company behind three of the knife brands on our shelves. Founded in Yangjiang, China, WE built its reputation on precision manufacturing — titanium frame locks, hand-finished bevels and tolerances that hold up against knives costing twice as much.
The WE line is the flagship: premium steels like M390, CPM 20CV and CPM S35VN, titanium handles, and collaborations with designers who normally work at the custom end of the market.
CIVIVI
Authorised dealer · Everyday carry
CIVIVI is WE's everyday-carry line, and the range most South African buyers land on first. Same factory and same quality control as the WE line, built around workhorse steels like Nitro-V and 14C28N with G10, micarta and canvas handles. The range also includes CIVIVI's machined EDC pens.
The result is a knife that takes a beating and doesn't hurt to replace — and CIVIVI's design catalogue is genuinely enormous, so there's a shape for every hand.
SENCUT
Authorised dealer · Entry point
SENCUT is the entry point into the WE family. Simpler finishes and more affordable steels, but the same fit and finish coming off the same production floor.
If you're buying your first proper folder, or you want something you genuinely won't mind losing on a hunt, this is where to start.
Knives — Design-Led Folders & Fixed Blades
Kizer
Imported · Design-led folders & fixed blades
Kizer builds knives around designs that stand out from the pack, working with makers like Azo, Jonathan Styles and South African designer Johan Jordaan. The KizerV line brings that design work to everyday prices in Nitro-V, AEB-L and 14C28N, while the main line steps up to titanium frames and premium steels such as Elmax, M390, CPM S45VN and MagnaCut.
Our range covers the Drop Bear family — the Zero, the 292 AirTi and the Drop Bear Fix fixed blade — alongside the Begleiter, Militaw, Durandal, Wharning and Dingo. Every steel and colourway has its own listing, so you can see exactly what you are buying.
Knives — The Names You Already Know
Spyderco
Imported · The modern folder
If you own a modern folding knife, Spyderco shaped it. The round opening hole, the pocket clip, the serrated edge — all three came out of a small Colorado company that has been quietly rewriting the rules since 1976.
Our range spans the honest, affordable Tenacious and Mantra 4 right up to the Military in CPM S110V and the Para Military 2 in Maxamet. In between sit the Delica, Native 5, Native Chief, Para 3, Shaman, Sage, the featherweight Charisma and the Salt Series built for saltwater — knives that people carry for decades rather than seasons. We also carry Spyderco's Seki-made K04 and K05 kitchen knives.
Cold Steel
Imported · Hard use
Cold Steel built its name on lock strength, and the Tri-Ad lock is still the benchmark for how much abuse a folding knife can take before something gives.
We carry the Recon M1 in CPM MagnaCut and the Swift III in CPM-M4 at the top end, the 4-Max Scout for fixed-blade strength in a folder, the Engage with its ATLAS Lock, the SRK Compact fixed blade, the Mackinac Hunter for the field, and the Air Lite, Mini Recon 1 and Pro Lite for anyone who wants Cold Steel engineering without Cold Steel money.
CRKT
Imported · Custom designs, sensible money
Columbia River Knife & Tool works with the best custom makers in the business — Kit Carson, Ken Onion and others — and turns their designs into knives ordinary people can actually afford.
The M16 has been in continuous production for decades, and the Drifter remains one of the best-value everyday carry folders anyone makes.
Kershaw
Imported · Assisted opening
Kershaw put assisted opening into everyday hands with SpeedSafe, and Ken Onion's Blur and Leek are among the most carried knives ever made. Much of the range is still built in Oregon.
Honey Badger Knives
Hard use · Working knives
Honey Badger earns its place on the wall on its own terms. The Cross-Bolt range runs a sturdy button-style lock that opens and closes easily with either hand, grippy FRN or G10 scales, and a deep-carry clip.
The Claw's wide hawkbill blade, in plain or serrated, pulls through rope, webbing and fibrous material, and the Wharncleaver in D2 steel gives a straight, blunt-tipped edge for controlled cuts.
These are working knives. The FRN models land under R1,000 and the 14C28N G10 versions step up the steel without stepping into collector territory. If you want a folder for the bakkie, the toolbox or the biltong board that you won't feel precious about, start here.
Knives — Premium & Tactical
Zero Tolerance
Imported · Made in the USA
Zero Tolerance is Kai USA's premium brand, built in Oregon to a standard most production folders don't attempt: thick titanium, premium powder steels and actions that feel closer to a custom knife.
We carry the 0350 that made the brand's name, the Hinderer 0562CF in MagnaCut, the Sinkevich 0450, the button-lock 0044, the 0203 in CPM-M4 and the skeletonised 0990.
Spartan Blades
Imported · Built by Special Forces veterans
Spartan Blades was founded by two former US Army Special Forces soldiers, Curtis Iovito and Mark Carey, and every design reflects what they needed from a knife in the field.
The range runs from the Harsey Fighter fixed blade in 1095 to folders like the Soter, Eleos, POROS and Astor — and the Carnivore Dining Set, a proper knife and fork for the braai that packs into its own case.
Sniper Bladeworks
Imported · Overbuilt folders
Sniper Bladeworks was founded in 2009 by Lance Abernathy, who spent more than a decade on a SWAT team before turning to knife design. His signature is the pistol-grip handle, which locks the knife into the hand.
We carry the two knives that made his name: the DMF, which made the cover of Blade Magazine, and the LPC, winner of the 2013 Blade Show Tactical Folder Award — both in CPM S35VN with titanium frame locks.
SIG Sauer
Imported · Duty knives
SIG Sauer is best known for its firearms, and its knife range — built in partnership with Eikonic — carries the same duty-use mindset. We carry the Validus in M390 and the compact Xiphos tanto in Nitro-V.
Bear Edge
Imported · Affordable working knives
Bear Edge is the value range from Bear & Son, a long-standing Alabama knife maker. The Brisk folders are honest, hard-working knives at a price that makes it easy to keep one in the bakkie and one in the toolbox.
Knives — Traditional & Hunting
Browning
Imported · Hunting
Browning has been making hunting gear since 1878, and the knives follow the same brief: classic materials, sensible steels, and a look that suits a hunting pack rather than a tactical one. Sculpted wood, brass pins, 440C — plus modern D2 flippers like the Cedar and South Slope, the traditional Mini Trapper and a full kitchen block set.
Browning's hunting lights sit in our lighting range: the Pro Hunter torches with green LEDs for tracking, the Kirabo and the Backroad headlamp.
Winchester
Imported · Traditional patterns
Bowies, stag lockbacks and wood-handled folders — the patterns your oupa carried, at prices that make them an easy gift. Brass bolsters, nail nicks and nylon belt sheaths, with no tactical pretensions anywhere.
Opinel
SA distribution · Savoie, France · Since 1890
Opinel has made the same folding knife in the French Alps since 1890, changed only in the details. Carbon steel blade, beechwood handle, and the Virobloc locking collar that twists to lock the blade open or closed — simple, and genuinely reliable.
We carry the full carbon steel Tradition range from the pocket-sized No. 6 up to the No. 10, in the same form Opinel has sold for well over a century.
UltraEdge
SA distribution · Game processing
The UltraEdge Game Master is an 8-piece game processing kit for field dressing and butchering game — the set of blades you want in the bakkie when the animal is down.
Knives — Kitchen
Böker
Imported · Solingen, Germany
Böker has been making blades in Solingen since 1869. The Heritage chef's knife is forged by hand there from X50CrMoV15 with a walnut handle, and the Forge chef's knife from the Böker Plus line is a no-fuss, full-tang kitchen workhorse.
Sharpening
DMT
Imported · Diamond abrasives
Diamond Machining Technology are the American diamond abrasive specialists, and diamond is the one abrasive that properly cuts modern powder steels. If you own an S30V, 20CV or MagnaCut blade, a ceramic sharpener will blunt itself against it — this is what maintains it instead.
The range runs from a pocket two-stage up to the GlidePro-Z, which carries separate angles for knives and for axes and machetes.
Lansky
Imported · Field sharpening
Lansky have been sharpening knives since 1979, and the Blademedic is one of the most widely carried field sharpeners in the world. Carbide, ceramic, serrated ceramic and a fold-out diamond rod in something that disappears into a pocket.
Smith's
Imported · Electric sharpeners
Smith's have been making sharpening equipment in Arkansas since 1886. The electric range takes the technique out of it entirely — the machine holds the angle, you draw the blade through.
Hearing Protection
Walker's Game Ear
Imported · Shooting & range
Noise damage is permanent and cumulative, and passive muffs leave you deaf to everything — including the range officer and the buck moving through the bush.
Walker's electronic muffs amplify what's around you and cut the gain the instant a shot goes off. The Razor's slim cups sit clear of a rifle stock, which is why that shape became a range standard. We carry passive, electronic, Bluetooth and youth sizes, including the Razor Slim Bluetooth and the folding Ultimate Power Muffs.
Lighting
Ledlenser
German engineering · Solingen
Ledlenser is headquartered in Solingen, the same German town that has been making blades for six hundred years, and its lights are engineered there. Their Advanced Focus System lets you shift from a wide flood to a tight spot with a twist of the head, and the build quality is what you'd expect from that address.
We carry the 2025 P-series, from the P3 keychain light and P4 pen torches through the P5R and P7, the K6R keyring lights, the P18R and P7R Pro for serious output, the P7R and T2 25 Years Editions, and the H3.2 and HF4R Signature headlamps. Register your light with Ledlenser after purchase and the warranty runs to seven years instead of two.
Olight
Imported · Rechargeable EDC & tactical
Olight made magnetic charging the standard for everyday-carry torches. Clip the cable to the tail cap and walk away — no ports to fill with dust or water.
We carry the thumb-sized Baton 4, Baton 4 Pro and Baton 4 Premium with its charging case, the Warrior X 4 and Warrior Ultra tactical lights, the 10,000-lumen Marauder Mini 2, the Oclip Pro clip light and the i1R 2 Pro and i3E keychain lights.
Nebo
Hard-working · Designed in the USA
Nebo takes a different approach: rechargeable lights with genuinely useful features at prices that don't make you nervous about using them properly. Magnetic bases, built-in power banks, glass breakers, tripod mounts.
The Luxtreme SL50 spotlight throws a beam 800 m down the road on twin 21700 cells. At the other end, the Torchy 2K puts 2,000 lumens in a torch that lives in your pocket, the Slyde King 2K slides open from a 2,000-lumen torch into a 500-lumen magnetic work light, and the Mycro headlamps are small enough to forget you're wearing.
Zweibrüder
German engineering · Solingen
Zweibrüder (German for “two brothers”) is the Solingen name that started Ledlenser, and its own range of rechargeable torches and penlights is engineered in Germany to the same standards.
The line-up runs from the pocket-sized ZB4P penlight up to the 4000-lumen ZB8T, all built around the same focus on real-world output and battery life.
Supaled
SA distribution · Headlamps
Compact, affordable headlamps for everyday use. We carry the Supaled Jogger, a light headlamp for running, walking and around camp.
Tools
CAT
Imported · Multi-tools & worklights
Multi-tools and worklights built to the same brief as the machines: survive being dropped, keep working when wet, and be findable in a toolbox. Nine, twelve and thirteen-function tools, plus a magnetic-base COB worklight that frees up both hands.
Leatherman
SA distribution · The original multi-tool
Leatherman invented the modern multi-tool in a Portland, Oregon garage in 1983, and the company still builds every tool in the USA. Pliers-based, stainless steel, and engineered to take genuine abuse — from the jobsite to the backcountry.
The Wave Plus remains the best-selling multi-tool ever made, and the range runs from the compact Sidekick and Wingman up to the Rebar and the full-size Super Tool 300.
Packs & Gear
Maxpedition
Imported · Hard-use packs
Maxpedition builds packs and bags that soldiers, police and hunters trust in hard conditions. We carry the Falcon-II hydration backpack in black and foliage green — a compact daypack with a sleeve for a 3-litre reservoir.
Alongside it sits genuine US GI military surplus: the ACU hydration pack carrier, new and never issued.
Power & Charging
Allocacoc
Dutch design · Power & charging
Allocacoc is the Dutch design house behind the PowerCube. We carry its PowerStrip Modular — a power strip you build from clip-on socket modules instead of a fixed row of sockets — and the USBcube Extended, which puts USB-A and USB-C charging on one plug.
Home & Gifting
Yankee Candle
Fragrance · Since 1969
Yankee Candle has been making scented candles since 1969 and remains the reference point for true-to-life fragrance and consistent, clean burning. We carry the Signature jar candles, reed diffusers and refills for the home, and Car Jars for the vehicle.
Fragrance is an easy gift to add to anything else on the shelf — and the reed diffusers and car jars come in fragrances like Black Cherry, Clean Cotton, Pink Sands and Sage & Citrus.
WoodWick
Fragrance · The crackling wick
WoodWick is known for its Hearthwick wooden wick, which crackles softly as it burns — closer to a small fire than a candle. We carry the WoodWick Ellipse candle.
Writing
LAMY
Special order · Heidelberg, Germany · Since 1930
LAMY has made writing instruments in Heidelberg since 1930, and every pen is designed to be used rather than kept in a box. The range runs from the iconic safari and AL-star to the studio, Lx, logo, pico and the LAMY 2000, in fountain pen, ballpoint, rollerball and pencil.
LAMY pens are special-order items, dispatched within 5–7 days of purchase.
Premium Cooking
Gozney
Special order · Outdoor pizza ovens
Gozney builds the outdoor pizza oven that made 500°C in a back garden a realistic weekend rather than a restaurant-only trick. Gas, wood or dual-fuel, from the portable Tread up to the three-pizza Dome XL, with the full run of stands, covers and peels to match.
These are special-order pieces — we don't hold floor stock, but every oven ships within 5–7 days of ordering.
Traeger
Special order · Wood pellet grills
Traeger invented the wood pellet grill category and has spent decades refining it — WiFIRE app control, Super Smoke mode, and enough cooking space to smoke a brisket or roast four whole chickens at once. Like Gozney, these ship to order within 5–7 days.
Weber
Special order · Braais & grills
Weber is the braai most South Africans already know. We carry the charcoal kettles — from the Smokey Joe and Go-Anywhere up to the 57 cm Original Kettle — alongside the Weber Q and Traveler portable gas braais, the Spirit, Genesis and Summit gas braais, the Searwood and Smoque pellet grills and the Slate griddles.
The range also includes genuine Weber covers, tools, cookware, fuel and spares. Like Gozney and Traeger, Weber is special order and ships within 5–7 days of ordering.
MEATER
SA distribution · Smart meat thermometers
MEATER makes wire-free smart meat thermometers that pair with the MEATER app for guided cooks, cook-time estimates and doneness alerts — no cables trailing out of the braai. We carry the MEATER Plus, Pro and Pro Duo, with the four-probe Pro XL available to order.
Drinkware & Coolers
YETI
Official SA distribution · The benchmark
YETI built the standard everyone else gets measured against — 18/8 kitchen-grade stainless steel, insulation that actually holds up, and a 5-year warranty on every Rambler bottle, tumbler and travel mug. The LoadOut GoBox line brings the same over-engineering to gear storage.
Coleman
SA distribution · Over 120 years outdoors
Coleman has been part of life outside for over 120 years — on the trail, by the lake, at the campsite and around the braai. We carry the Pro Series hard coolers, built with extra-thick insulation, stainless steel latches and a Have-A-Seat lid, in a 45QT chest and a wheeled 55QT.
For a whole camp there's the Convoy 100QT wheeled cooler, which holds 81 cans with 24 kg of ice and keeps ice for up to five days.
Frozen
SA distribution · Compressor fridge/freezers
A compressor fridge doesn't care how hot the day is — it holds the temperature you set, so you stop buying bags of ice. The Frozen SK55 gives you 55 litres, runs from 12V or 24V vehicle power or 220V household power, and has low-voltage battery protection so it won't flatten the cranking battery.
Come and see the SK55 at the Kempton Park showroom.
Stanley 1913
SA distribution · American drinkware since 1913
Stanley has been building vacuum-insulated steel since 1913, and the Quencher tumbler turned the brand into the drinkware everyone recognises on sight. Double-wall insulation, recycled stainless steel, and a lifetime guarantee behind every piece.
Our range spans the Quencher and IceFlow tumblers, the Everyday Camp Mug, Transit Fliptop travel mugs, the Wellspring bottle and the Stanley Pet Bowl.
Santeco
SA distribution · French design
Santeco is a French-designed range of double-walled insulated bottles, flasks and tumblers that does the everyday things properly, at a price that makes it easy to kit out the whole family rather than one person. Coffee tumblers sized for a cup holder, a sports bottle with its own carry bag, and a kids' range sized for smaller hands.
The vacuum flasks run from the Kolima in 500ml and 1 litre to the Kafe, a 650ml flask with a built-in coffee dripper, plus the Koya 500ml bottle and the Erie 1.9 litre jug for a full day out.
KUGA
Authorised dealer · Proudly South African
KUGA is a South African brand building insulated drinkware and cooler boxes for South African conditions — which mostly means keeping something cold in the back of a bakkie in January.
Vacuum-insulated stainless steel across the range, from the Pocket Flask up to the Outlander Max, plus the Africa Edition 50L cooler in a spread of colours. It's the range we use ourselves on the braai and in the veld.
On how we source. We are an authorised South African dealer for WE Knife Co., CIVIVI, SENCUT and KUGA — which means that stock comes through official channels and carries full manufacturer warranty. Our Honey Badger, Ledlenser, Nebo, Supaled, UltraEdge, Allocacoc, Coleman, Frozen, Santeco, Yankee Candle, WoodWick, YETI, MEATER, Gozney, Traeger, Weber, Leatherman, Opinel, Stanley 1913, Zweibrüder and LAMY stock is sourced through their South African distribution and carries the same.
Spyderco, Cold Steel, CRKT, Kershaw, Browning, Winchester, DMT, Lansky, Smith's, Walker's and CAT we import directly ourselves, because there is either no South African agent for them or no depth of stock behind one. Every piece is genuine, bought from the manufacturer's own wholesale distributor, and landed properly with duties paid. Warranty on these lines is handled by us here in Kempton Park rather than by a local agent — talk to us and we will sort it out.
Zero Tolerance, Spartan Blades, Sniper Bladeworks, SIG Sauer, Bear Edge, Olight and Maxpedition we also import directly through the same US wholesale channel. Every piece is genuine and landed properly with duties paid, and we handle warranty on them here in Kempton Park.
Böker we import directly ourselves. Every piece is genuine and landed properly with duties paid, and we handle warranty on them here in Kempton Park.
Kizer we import directly from the manufacturer. Every piece is genuine and landed properly with duties paid, and we handle warranty on them here in Kempton Park.
If you've ever wondered why the same knife is half the price on a marketplace listing, this is usually the reason.