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Benni McCarthy is Bafana Bafana all time leading goal scorer having scored 31 goals in 80 caps for his country.
(https://t.co/8IOG9thLXC)

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Anrune Weyers has won Team South Africa’s first medal of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with victory in the women’s 400m (T47) final. She won the gold medal in a time of 56.05sec. (28 Aug)
(https://t.co/BE4pn5RzwK)

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Ntando Mahlangu won Team South Africa's 2nd medal of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with a leap of 7.17m in the men’s T63 long jump to earn him a gold medal and a world record in the T61 category.
(https://t.co/BE4pn5RzwK)

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Naspers is South Africa's biggest company in 2021 via market capitalisation with an estimated market cap of R1.55 Trillion according to African Business.
(https://t.co/yoX699wylW)

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As of 8 August, South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa according to Statista.
(https://t.co/G5EZDK2WKb)

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Percy Tau is a South African football player who has recently completed his transfer worth a reported R32Million from Brighton and Hove Albion to Egyptian side Al Ahly. (26 Aug)
(https://t.co/Rd0HG2SctB)

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Benni McCarthy is a former professional football/soccer player. He has the most Premier League goals (37) of all South Africans, having played for Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United.
(https://t.co/qTluhCxteM)

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Steven Pienaar is a former professional football/soccer player. He has the most Premier League appearances (214) of all South Africans, having played for Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland.
(https://t.co/qTluhCxteM)

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South Africa is the 3rd best African country in gender equality according to the 2021 gender gap report - it is also ranked 18th globally.
(Global Gender Gap Report 2021)

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The Tower of Terror is a super coaster at Gold Reef City in South Africa and holds the record for the highest G-force on a rollercoaster in the world with a rating of 6.3G. This is more than double the G-force astronauts experience.
(https://t.co/E8zYeR4fGc)

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South Africa finished 6th on the 2021 World Atheltics U20 Championships medal table with a total of 9 medals.
(https://t.co/6JiULUOrbF)

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South Africa's Mihlali Xhotyeni, Sinesipho Dambile, Letlhogonolo Moleyane and Benjamin Richardson make history by winning the Men's 4x100m gold at the World Athletics U20 Championships in a world U20 record time of 38.51. (22 Aug)
(https://t.co/6JiULUOrbF)

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Miné De Klerk won the gold medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Shot Put with a distance of 17.40m.
(https://t.co/6JiULUOrbF)

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The University of Cape Town (UCT), is South Africa's oldest university. It was founded in 1829 and has a campus on the slopes of Table Mountain's Devil's Peak.
(https://t.co/Didhz8PDMl)

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South Africa has 26 public universities. They're distributed all across the country with each province having at least one.
(https://t.co/IISu898Et1)

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Ernst van Dyk is the most successful individual athlete in the Boston Marathon, having won the wheelchair division a record 10 times.
(https://t.co/IRnPo926CR)

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Mire Reinstorf clinched the gold medal and set African-U20 record in the women's pole vault final with a height of 4.15metres at the World Atheltics U20 Championships (18 Aug).
(https://t.co/6JiULUOrbF)

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The largest university in South Africa in terms of student population is the University of South Africa (UNISA) with over 400,000 students.
(https://t.co/IISu898Et1)

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With an annual enrollment of 60,000 students, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is the largest residential university in South Africa.
(https://t.co/gFi4kNrC5F)

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