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The interesting stuff
Read
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Bang Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Jaoao Silva
Rainbow Diary by John Malathronas
Watch
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Tsotsi (2005)
Catch a Fire (2006)
Do
The Bloukrans Bungee, the world’s highest bungee jump
Spot the Big Five on safari
Sample Cape Town’s night life
Visit the Zulu battlefields
Trek in the Drakensburg mountains
Eat
Biltong
Cost of a beer? $1.50 (12 South African Rand) approx.
Did you know?
There are more species of plants on Table Mountain than there are in the entire United Kingdom.
South Africa voluntarily abandoned its nuclear weapons program in the 1990s, and is the only country in the world to have done so.
The Vredefort Dome, near Parys, is the oldest meteor scar in the world.
The world’s largest diamond, the Cullinan Diamond, was found in South Africa in 1905. It was cut in to smaller diamonds, many of which now form part of the British crown jewels.