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Southern Africa
is poised to reap the rewards
of International Tourism and Business which will emanate from the
immediate World Cup 20/20 Cricket
and the World
Cup
Soccer 2010
Tournaments.
The objective
of this Newsletter
is to generate interest in this
geographical area as well as to
create the platform
for small and large businesses
to advertise their products and services, no matter where they are
based in the World.
Initially, the Newsletter will be distributed monthly.
A, further objective, is to encourage Tourism and Business
ventures through your involvement
in the Newsletter. If you have a Business venture you wish to
pursue, please contact us.
We gratefully will accept any copy, regarding
events that will be taking place in the Region. Please, submit what
you would like to see on the Newsletter. For example, Economic,
Tourism, Sports, Conservation, Transport Corridors and related
information, or have your Country included, to
Simba the
Editor.
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MORE
ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA THE RAINBOW NATION
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Animal of the
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African elephants are
native to a wide variety of habitats including semi-desert scrub,
open savannas and dense forest regions. Their habitat ranges from
sea level to 16,000 feet (4,877 m). The African elephant is the
largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg. It inhabits
the Savannah, brush, forest, river valleys, and semi-desert regions
of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Besides its greater size, it
differs from the Asian elephant in having larger ears and tusks, a
sloping forehead, and two “fingers” at the tip of its trunk,
compared to only one in the Asian species. African elephants are
capable of making a wide variety of vocal sounds, such as grunts,
purrs, bellows, whistles, and the obvious trumpeting. Elephants and
people have always had an interesting relationship.
Big5
in Africa |
Big5 Photo Gallery
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South Africa,
Twenty20 Cricket Worldcup
South Africa is very proud to host the inaugural Twenty20 Cricket
World Cup. A total of twelve teams are participating in this first
Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.The teams are divided into four groups of
three teams. The top two teams in each group qualify for the
knockout stages of the tournament.
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The four groups are as follows;
Group A
- South Africa, West
Indies & Bangladesh
Group B - England, Australia and
Zimbabwe
Group C - New Zealand, Sri Lanka
and Kenya
Group D - Pakistan, India and
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Three cities and venues are
being used for this 14 day cricket extravaganza.
Johannesburg, will
host the opening and Final games at the Liberty Life
Wanderers Stadium, which is affectionately known as the
Bull ring, due to its shape and many classic encounters. |
The ticket price are very reasonable ranging from $ 3
(ZAR 20 per person for the minor games and $ 20(ZAR 160 per
person), for the Final.
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The opening match is between
the hosts South Africa and West Indies at Liberty Life
Wanderers Stadium on 11th September and Final match of
20-20 World cup will be played on September 24th 2007.
Cape Town
–
Newlands Cricket Stadium,
is renown as one of the most picturesque Stadiums in the
World. The Stadium is guarded by the magnificent Table
Mountain and the infrastructure and excellent design are
World class.
Durban - Sahara
Stadium Kingsmead. This beautiful ground is about one
kilometre from the warm Indian Ocean coast line in Durban.
Durban has some of the finest beaches in the World.
This historic cricket ground
hosted the Timeless test 1938 -39 that was played between
England and South Africa for 9 days and ended in a draw as
the Second World War was imminent and their steam ship had
to sail back to England.
Set 696 runs to win in the fourth innings they had reached
an astonishing 654/5 and had a real chance of winning the
match when they had to leave.
Bill Edrich was top scorer with
219 in a Test in which there were five other centurions. An
aggregate of 1,981 runs was scored. The match was abandoned
because of rain. There were 43 hours 16 minutes of actual
playing time.
It is amazing to consider that
in all 27 Games will be completed in a 14 days where as the
Timeless test didn’t have a result after 9 days!!!
Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, is
still on of the few cricket grounds that still has grass
verges on which you can sun tan or let the children play.
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Internet :
www.computicket.com
Call Centre :
International :
+2711
340-8600
Local :083915
8000 or
(011)
340-8600
(Open
Monday – Saturday from 08:00 am – 08:00pm)
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Computicket Stores:
Located nationally in all major
centres as well as at
Wanderers Cricket Stadium –
Johannesburg
(011)788-1008
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Newlands Cricket Ground
–
Cape Town
(021)657-2003
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Kingsmead Cricket Ground –
Durban
(031)335-4200
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Ras
Tours & Safaris Ltd
is a well established tour
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Zanzibar. We offer a broad spectrum of services, which
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"Potjie Kos"
is a
meal cooked in an iron pot over the fire. The way to cook a potjie
is usually very slow. Many types of meat can be used for a potjie
but here we have chosen one of the favorites - oxtail.
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