Barberton, the ‘Daisy Town’, was named after Henry Barber on 24th of July 1884 by the gold commissioner David Walson, after Barber and his cousin Fred discovered gold in the area. The mining of gold in South Africa...
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A man from Cape Town currently holds the record for the biggest powerball win, which is also the biggest overall lottery win in South Africa. This massive top prize of R232 131 750 came about after rolling over 24 consecutive...
South Africa and its people currently hold over 150 Guinness World Records.
Percy Maimela got an acre of space in the Guinness book for creating the largest ever mosaic. The artist set the record in September 2019 by creating a massive 5 x 5 meters mosaic of the DJ Black Coffee at Sandton City...
Zama Mofokeng made 34 back-flips using one hand. In july 2017, he entered the Guinness book for managing less than three seconds between the flips. He ventured into gymnastics at the age of 10 but could not join the competitive...
The longest motorcycle ride through a tunnel of fire is 120.40 m and was achieved by Enrico Schoeman and Andre de Kock in Parys, South Africa, on 5 September 2014.
The largest vuvuzela is 35 metres long and 5.5 metres in diameter at the front. It was created by Hyundai Automotive South Africa and was presented and measured in Cape Town on 26 May 2010. The vuvuzela was sounded before each...
Sutherland in the karoo is the coldest town in South Africa, although the farm Buffelsfontein near Molteno holds the official lowest temperature record in continental south africa, of -20.1 °c (-4 °f).
The first railway in South Africa was from Cape Town to Wellington and was worked by a small locomotive in 1859. The first passenger carrying service was a small line of about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) built by the Natal Railway...
South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), shows that South Africa loses R157 million – R2.4 billion a year to cyberattacks.