11/04/2021
TOP FACTS THAT PUTS THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA🇿🇦 IN THE WORLD STAGE:
1. South Africa🇿🇦 has the most equal official languages in the world with 11 official languages.
2. South Africa🇿🇦 boasts 10% of the world’s bird, fish and plant species as well as 6% of its mammal and reptile species.
3. The Cape Winelands and South Africa’s🇿🇦 wines are world-famous.
4. South Africa🇿🇦 is the only country in the world with three capital cities- Bloemfontein (Judicial capital city), Capetown (Legislative capital city) and Pretoria (Executive capital city).
5. The world’s first heart transplant was completed in Cape Town, South Africa🇿🇦.
6. South Africa🇿🇦 has the world’s highest commercial bungee jump, in Brokrauns bridge, at 216 m.
7. It’s the only country in the world where two Nobel Prize winners lived on the same street- Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
8. Table Mountain is one of the oldest mountains in the world, approximately 260 million years old.
9. South Africa🇿🇦 is the first country to produce oil from the coal
10. South Africa🇿🇦 is one of the two countries in the world to have hosted the Soccer, Cricket and Rugby World Cup.
11. Table Mountain is one of the planet’s 12 main energy centres, radiating magnetic, electric or spiritual energy.
12. The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the world’s six floral kingdoms – and the only one which is wholly contained within a single country.
13. Rooibos Tea is the only tea in the world that cannot grow in other countries, only grows in South Africa🇿🇦.
14. South Africa🇿🇦 is the only if not one of the few that has deserts, wetlands, grasslands, bush, subtropical forests, mountains and escarpments.
15. South Africa’s🇿🇦 drinking water is rated 3rd best in the world for being “safe and ready to drink”.
16. Route 62 in the Cape Winelands region, is considered the longest wine🍷 route in the world.
17. South African🇿🇦 brewery SABMiller ranks – by volume – as the largest brewing company in the world.
18. South Africa🇿🇦 is the only country in the entire world that has voluntarily abandoned its nuclear weapons programme.
19. The world’s largest themed resort hotel in the world – The Palace of the Lost City.
20. Nearly 90% of all the platinum metals on earth and around 41% of all the world’s Gold comes from South Africa🇿🇦.
21. South Africa🇿🇦 is home to the oldest meteor scar in the world – the Vredefort Dome in a town called Parys.
22. The South African🇿🇦 Rovos Rail is considered the most luxurious train in the world.
23. General Motors South Africa is the only place outside of the USA to build the Hummer H3.
24. The oldest remains of modern humans were found in South Africa and are well over 160,000 years old.
25. The Karoo region in the Western Cape is home to some of the best fossils of early dinosaurs.
26. South Africa🇿🇦 is the 2nd world's largest producer of Fruits.
27. South Africa🇿🇦 hosts the world’s largest bicycle race.
28. South Africa🇿🇦 is home to the world's sexiest accent- Afrikaans.
29. South Africa🇿🇦 has one of the world's younger populations by age.
30. The world's largest known diamond was discovered in 1905 at the Premier Mine near Pretoria. The size: 3,106 carats and roughly 1.3 pounds.
31. South African🇿🇦 fish migration is so huge you can see it from space.
32. South Africa🇿🇦 is the only country in the world where two colonisers fight amongst themselves for the country, The Dutch and the British.
33. South Africa🇿🇦 is full of record-breaking animals- largest land mammal (elephant), the largest bird (ostrich), the tallest animal (giraffe), the largest fish (whale shark), the largest reptile (leatherback turtle), the fastest land mammal (cheetah) and the largest antelope (eland).
34. Cape Town was voted the best city in the world 7th times in a row, Telegram And also by New York Times in 2014. 🌍
