Cobus Joubert is a farmers son, born and raised in Barrydale, situated in the Klein Karoo. Cobus’ passion for the ocean was stemmed from spending many family holidays at their beach shack in Robberg, Plettenberg Bay and Cobus launched WAWA Surfboards in Muizenberg in 2016 focusing on shaping green surfboards from cork and sustainable wood. Aside from Surfboard shaping, Cobus grew up heavily involved in the wine export industry. The Joubert family is an institution in the SA wine industry and their family traces back to wine farming in Wellington in around 1800. The family are known best for their notorious Joubert Muscat d’Alexandrie 1800. In 2014 one bottle was sold alongside a personal letter from the Joubert Family, the bottle date and pictures of the bottling for R50,000!