- South Africa has more cars, phones and automated tellers than all of Africa put together.
- Six Nobel Prize winners hail from South Africa, including Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee, Albert Luthuli and FW de Klerk.
- South Africa was rated third in the world for cleanest drinking water.
- Stop looking for a plug in your bathroom. It doesn't exist. It's against safety regulations to install an electrical plug in the bathroom. So just get used to drying your hair in your bedroom.
- The international computerized ticket-sales system, Computicket, was invented in South Africa.
- Kreep Krauly - the automated pool cleaning device - was also invented here.