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Did you know

• There are more plant species on Table Mountain than the British Isles or New Zealand?

 

• The first motion picture footage ever recorded was shot in South Africa?

 

• Cape Town is the only place on earth where you can see one World Heritage Site from another?

 

• Mahatma Gandhi was the first lawyer of colour to be admitted to the Supreme Court in South Africa.

 

• The Big Hole is the largest hand-dug excavation in the world, it ceased production on 14 August 1914 when the lower reaches were flooded.

 

• The Voortrekker Monument granite frieze, depicting the heroics of the trekkers on 27 bas-relief panels, is the largest in the world.

 

• Isandlwana is the worst defeat the British have ever suffered against an indigenous army. But they redeemed themselves at Rorke’s Drift where more Victoria Crosses were awarded than in any other day of battle of British history.

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