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“Satisfaction
lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
Mahatma Gandhi
- When Nelson
Mandela was inaugurated as President in 1994, SA was insolvent (liabilities
exceeded assets). Today, the Government's deficit is negligibly one of only
a handful of countries in this position.
- We've had single
digit inflation since 1993 - following 20 years of double-digit inflation.
- The world's most
progressive Constitution
- South Africa is
one of only 12 countries, where we can drink water from a tap. Our tap water
was found to be the 3rd best quality in the entire world.
- The Kruger Park
has the most innovative management of a national park anywhere in the world
- and is the world's most profitable game park.
- Eskom is the
largest producer of coal-fired electricity in the world and South Africans
pay the least for electricity in the world.
- South African
Breweries is the 4th largest brewer in the world and produces over 50% of
China's beer!
- South Africa has the longest wine route in the world, the R62 wine route
- Walt Disney serves South African wine exclusively at its 73-acre Animal
Kingdom Lodge in the United States.
- Mercedes Benz C
Class, BMW 3 Series and VW Golf/Jetta vehicles for all right-hand drive
markets throughout the world are produced in South Africa.
- We have the
oldest meteorite site in the world (Vredefort) which is almost 2 billion
years old - that's half as old as the planet.
- We were the first
country to protect the great white sharks.
- The Kimberley
Hole is the largest man made hole in the world.
- The
Star of Africa is the largest cut diamond in the world
- We have the
second highest waterfall in the world (Tugela Falls) and the third biggest
canyon (Blyde River).
- South Africa is
the only country in which two Nobel Peace prize winners lived on the same
street. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu both lived in Vilakazi Street in
Soweto.
- About 28% of Africa is wilderness
- South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are tearing down fences between
the countries’ game parks to create a 35 000km2 game park which will become
the largest conservation area in the world. It will be bigger than
Switzerland, Belgium or Taiwan
- The African elephant is the heaviest land mammal in the world
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
- Despite being popularly known as the "king of the jungle", the lion is
an animal of the open plains,
- Some lions can mate over 50 times a day
- Where else is an entirely new species being recreated from scratch? The
quagga vanished in a frenzy of hunting in the 1800s, but after finding that
the DNA is almost identical to the common Burchell’s zebra, the species is
being brought back from beyond the brink by careful breeding of
stripe-challenged zebras.
- Giraffes give birth standing up. The baby falls from a height of six
feet and usually without being hurt
- South Africa is ranked number one in the world for its floral kingdom
- There are 18 000 indigenous vascular plant species in South Africa of
which 80% are uniquely South African.
- The Cape
Peninsula has more species of plants per hectare than any other area of the
world.
- South Africa is the world’s largest producer of macadamia nuts and
the nuts and oils are exported to countries across the world
- South African grasslands have 30 species per square kilometre, greater
than the biodiversity of rainforests
- South Africa has the third highest level of biodiversity in the world
- The
highest bungee jump in the world
- South Africa houses one of the three largest telescopes
in the
world at Sutherland in the Karoo
- The world’s first heart transplant was done in South Africa in 1967 by
South African Dr Chris Barnard
- Since the 1940s, South African golfers have won more golf majors than
any other nation, apart from the United States.
- Since 1994, 500 houses have been built each day
for the
poor
- Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world after
Washington, D.C.
- South Africa is the first, and to date only, country
to build
nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantle its entire nuclear
weapons programme
- Eleven
officially recognised languages: English, Zulu, Xhosa,
Ndebele, Afrikaans, siSwati, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Setswana, Tshivenda
and Xitsonga
- Afrikaans is the youngest official language
in the world
- Warm, friendly,
vibrant rainbow people
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