City & Places
This small Karoo town is known as the “Ostrich Capital of the World.”
What is Oudtshoorn?
The Rivonia Trial, which led to Mandela’s imprisonment, was held in this Johannesburg suburb.
What is Rivonia?
The Cape Floral Kingdom, one of Earth’s six floral kingdoms, contains roughly this number of plant species—more than the entire UK.
What is about 9,000 species?
This musical genre, born in the townships, blends house music with kwaito and jazz.
What is Amapiano?
South Africa’s first heart transplant in 1967 was performed by this surgeon.
Who is Dr. Christiaan Barnard?
The Drakensberg mountains stretch mainly across this province.
KwaZulu-Natal
The 1976 Soweto Uprising began over this language being made compulsory in schools.
Afrikaans
The only penguin species found on the African continent.
The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)
This popular meat dish is often cooked outdoors and translates loosely to “barbecue.”
Braai
The world’s largest radio telescope project, co-hosted by South Africa, is known by this acronym.
What is the SKA (Square Kilometre Array)?
South Africa’s administrative capital, home to the Union Buildings.
Pretoria
This apartheid law classified people by race starting in 1950.
Population Registration Act
This ancient baobab tree in Limpopo once housed a pub inside its hollow trunk.
What is the Sunland Baobab?
The world-renowned Zulu reed dance celebrates this value in young women.
Umemulo ceremony
This coastal city is home to Koeberg, Africa’s only nuclear power station.
What is Cape Town?
This city hosts Africa’s largest port.
Durban, South Africa
In 1910, four colonies united to form this new political entity.
Union of South Africa
Table Mountain’s flat top was shaped mainly by this natural force.
Differential erosion
This South African Nobel laureate wrote Cry, the Beloved Country.
Alan Paton
This South African invention changed mining worldwide by allowing deep-level extraction.
What is the hydraulic drill (or pneumatic rock drill)?
Known for its diamond rush, this Northern Cape city built the Big Hole.
Kimberly
This anti-apartheid activist and Black Consciousness leader died in police custody in 1977.
Steve Biko
This small desert, spanning parts of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana, is known for its red sand dunes.
Kalahari Desert
Known as “the Mother of the Nation,” she was a fierce anti-apartheid activist.
Winnie Mandela
This Pretoria-based company developed the Rooivalk, a locally built combat helicopter.
What is Denel Aviation?