South Africa’s most classified dinner party just became a crime scene.

Our Braai Day Murder Mystery game is the only Braai Day murder mystery game in existence — a South African political whodunnit set at the most chaotic and most classified emergency government summit in South African history. You have been summoned to a closed-door Heritage Day murder mystery game unlike anything your guests have experienced before. The motion on the table: should Heritage Day officially be renamed Braai Day? Factions are forming, tempers are flaring, and the invitation makes clear that failure to appear will be viewed as treason.

Then Minister of Arts and Culture, Shimmy Shabalala, is found dead in the gardens — poisoned — before he can deliver his speech. And what a speech it would have been.

What nobody at the summit knew — until now — is that Shimmy’s real agenda had nothing to do with braais. He was about to announce a secret agreement with Russia to annex Antarctica, backed by Russian military force, in exchange for access to the continent’s extraordinary untapped resources. The geopolitical document he brought with him is real. The stakes could not be higher. And every single person in that room had a reason to want him silenced.

The guest list alone is worth the price of admission. The President’s ghost-written memoirs are titled Silent But Deadly: My Life in Global Politics. The Russian Ambassador has brought an uninvited slim volume of lament poetry called Load Shedding of the Soul. The lead singer of Eskom & The Blackouts runs a non-profit dedicated to saving the polar bears of Antarctica — there are no polar bears in Antarctica — and nobody has worked out how to tell her. A tech mogul is in a committed relationship with her AI anime boyfriend and takes visible offence when guests fail to acknowledge him. The world’s oldest bank CEO has never owned a mobile phone and will show you polaroids of his grandchild, Sakkietjie, whether you want to see them or not.

This is not a passive experience. Every guest arrives as a character with a backstory, a secret, and a motive — and the interrogations begin the moment Shimmy’s body is discovered. Each player must reveal their insider secrets over the dinner table as the evening unfolds. The only rule is that you cannot contradict the information on your Clue Card. Otherwise, improvise freely — and the more outrageously your guests commit to their characters, the more gloriously unhinged the evening becomes.

The game caters for 8–12 guests (4-6 male characters and 4-6 female characters) of varying ages — making it the most intimate and politically explosive game in the Murder Mystery Guide collection.

The fully designed printable kit includes everything you need for a summit gone spectacularly wrong: an Invitation — classified, urgent, and legally threatening — Character Sheets, Clue Cards, the Host’s Timeline, the Murder Note, Shimmy Shabalala’s undelivered Speech, and a geopolitical memorandum on why South Africa should annex Antarctica – based on reality. Because some props write themselves.

Murder Mystery Guide games are conceived and designed in Cape Town, and played everywhere — from living rooms to luxury venues across South Africa, the UK, and beyond. Every game in our collection is an original production: fully designed, largely improvised, and built for real people, not trained actors. No scripts to memorise, no experience required — just great company and a willingness to have fun. Whether you’re hosting a Heritage Day celebration, a milestone birthday, or a dinner party for people who enjoy their satire served with a side of international conspiracy, we give every guest a role, a secret, and a reason to stay at the table.

*The stories, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in these productions are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Please note that all event, décor, catering, printing, venue hire and hosting services are not included in this purchase; the downloadable PDFs alone are the product. Please note that Murder Mystery Guide Experiences are not suitable for children and contain themes, scenarios, characters and references that may be inappropriate for sensitive persons.