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Eight welcoming questions about the things South Africa is best known for. No expert knowledge needed: everyone can join in and learn something new.
Safari first-timer 0–3 · Wildlife watcher 4–6 · Honorary South African 7–8
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The Big Five are the lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo. Hunters first used the name for the animals hardest to hunt on foot, but today most visitors only 'shoot' them with a camera, in parks like Kruger, which became South Africa's first national park in 1926.
Photo: User:מנחם.אל, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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The flag shows red, white, green, black, blue and gold, with a green band that splits into a sideways Y. It was designed in March 1994 and adopted the following month, and one of its nicknames is the Seskleur, which means 'six colour' in Afrikaans.
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Many people think the famous Cape of Good Hope is Africa's southern tip, but that is Cape Agulhas, about 150 km to the east-southeast. The official dividing line between the two oceans starts there, although their warm and cold currents meet along a stretch of coast that shifts.
Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The final, Spain against the Netherlands, was played at Soccer City in Johannesburg, a stadium nicknamed the Calabash because it looks like a traditional African pot. Fans filled the matches with the loud drone of vuvuzelas, plastic horns about 65 cm long.
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Ostriches are the biggest birds alive, lay the biggest eggs of any living bird and can sprint at about 70 km/h. Oudtshoorn, nicknamed the 'ostrich capital of the world', had two great ostrich-feather booms, in the late 1860s and the early 1900s, when the feathers were prized for fashionable hats and clothes.
Photo: thomas, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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South Africa won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023. In the 2023 final in France it beat New Zealand by a single point, 12–11, to lift the Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, who is often credited with inventing rugby.
Photo: Charlie, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Gold was found on farmland in 1886, and within ten years more than 100,000 people lived in the new town. That is why Johannesburg is nicknamed the City of Gold, while diamonds made another South African city, Kimberley, famous.
Photo: Mark Hillary, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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African penguins settled at Boulders Beach in 1982 with just two breeding pairs, and the colony has since grown to thousands of birds. Their loud call sounds like a braying donkey, and the pink patches above their eyes turn pinker when they get too hot.
Photo: Olga Ernst, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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