SOUTH AFRICAN FUN FACTS

Haven't posted anything recently from the South Africa - The Good News website, but here are a few miscellaneous fun facts:

Miscellaneous

• South Africa has 11 official, state wide, languages, more than any other country.
• The only street in the world to house 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners is in Soweto. Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu both have houses in Vilakazi Street, Orlando West. SA ranks 7th in terms ofnumber of Nobel Peace prizes. (Economist).
• Two of the world’s most profoundly compassionate philosophies originated in South Africa – Ubuntu (the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity) and Gandhi’s notion of "Passive resistance" (Satyagraha), which he developed while living in South Africa.
• The Western Deep Level mines are the world’s deepest mines at approaching 4km.
• South Africa houses one of the three largest telescopes in the world at Sutherland in the Karoo.
• South Africa is the first, and to date only, country to build nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantleits entire nuclear weapons programme.
• SA ranks 12th in terms of beer consumption (China 1; USA 2; Russia 3; Brazil 4 and Germany 5).
• SA has 45 million active cell phones (population 49 million) – ranking in the top 5 globally in terms of cell phone coverage.
• SA has 66 colour TV’s per 100 households, 9 telephone lines per 100 population and 90 mobile telephone subscribers per 100 population. (Economist).
• 2 Cape Town restaurants are in the top 50 restaurants in the world according to the S.Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list 2010. La Colombe restaurant in Constantia, Cape Town, was voted the 12th best andLe Quartier Francais in Franschhoek came in at 31
• South Africa has 8.5 computers per 100 population (UK 80, Spain 40,South Korea 47 and USA 80). (Economist).
• SA ranks 31st in terms of internet users per 1000 population. (Economist).
• SA ranks 16th in terms of cinema visits per 1000 population. (Economist).
• South Africa does not feature on the "brain drain" list of 20 countries. (Economist).
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