- Boulders Beach, near Cape Town, is home to a colony of penguins
- Disney serves South African wine exclusively at its Animal Kingdom Lodge
- South Africa has the cheapest electricity in the world
- The Cape Floral Kingdom is the only one of the world’s 6 floral kingdoms to be contained wholly within one country
- South Africa is the second largest exporter of fruit in the world
- General Motors South Africa is the only place outside the U.S. to build the Hummer H3
- South Africa has nearly 90% of the platinum metals on earth, 80% of the manganese, 73% of the chrome, 45% of the vanadium, and 41% of the gold
