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Steps to follow: 1. Download Instagram from your Appstore. 2. Register on the application. 3. Search sna.civils and Follow! 1. 2. 3. Steps to follow: 1. Download Facebook from your Appstore. 2. Register on the application. 3. Search SNA Civil and Structural Engineers and Like! 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. There are more than 1 500 plant species on Table Mountain in Cape Town alone. This represents more floral species than the whole of the United Kingdom Incredibly, this country is home to the largest bird (ostrich), largest land mammal (elephant), tallest animal (giraffe), smallest succulent (10 millimetres), heaviest flying bird (khori bustard), largest fish (whale shark), largest antelope (eland), largest tree (baobab), fastest land mammal (cheetah), largest reptile (leatherback turtle), and smallest mammal (least dwarf shrew). Vilakazi Street in Soweto was the residential address of two Nobel Peace Prize winners – Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. About a fifth of the world’s gold hails from the mines of South Africa. Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in the world in 1967. This took place at the renowned Groote Schuur Hospital. Table Mountain is acknowledged as being one of the oldest mountains on the planet. South Africa boasts 90% of the platinum metals on earth. Rooibos tea has become a worldwide favourite for its fresh taste and excellent health properties. It is only grown in a small region (in the Cederberg) of South Africa and has to be exported in massive quantities from here. Lesotho is a country that is surrounded entirely by South African borders. South Africa is home to eight World Heritage Sites: •The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape •Robben Island •The Cape Floristic Region •The Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape •Vredefort Dome (the oldest meteor scar in the world) •The Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and environs fossil hominid sites. •The iSimangaliso Wetland Park •The Ukhahlamba / Drakensberg Park Let’s preserve our beautiful country and place our votes. 08 May 2019 13