Did you know? STN facts
Did you know? STN facts
1. That Namibia employs day-light saving?
2. That the Botswanan Pula is stronger than the South African Rand?
3. That Zambia has over 72 different languages?
4. That the official currency of Zimbabwe is the US Dollar, but they only use the notes so change is a bit of an issue and so you end up receiving it as Rands or in exchange for a lollipop or 2?
5. That the most expensive game animal that has been sold in SA is a buffalo bull, for over R9 million?
6. That Namibia is the 4th least densely populated country in the world?
7. In Tanzania the time can be very confusing? In “Swahili time”, the day starts at sunrise (6am) which is refered to as 0 o’clock. That means lunch is served at 6:30 and your post-breakfast snorkelling trip at 4 o’clock in the morning.
8. Lake Malawi has the largest variety of cichlids (tropical fish) of any lake in the world? And over 90% of the cichlids in Lake Malawi do not occur anywhere else in the world? Incidently, many of them cannot swim across open water and so are contained to certain islands within the lake itself.
9. While around 35% of the Tanzanian population is Muslim, the figure for Zanzibar island is drastically higher at 97%?
10. That in Rwanda, plastic bags are illegal and as a result the country is virtually litter-free?
11. You drive on the righthand side of the road in Rwanda?
12. That the Rwandan government has declared it illegal to build the roof of any building out of natural materials and so they now have to be either corrugated iron or tiles?
13. Rwanda has laid 2 300 kilometres of fibre optic cables across the country to link it to undersea cables running along the east African coast, the country is on the brink of nation-wide high-speed internet?
14. There are rural Rwandan schools in which each child has a laptop? The President Kagame has a One Child One Laptop goal for all children by 2020.
15. That Tanzania has the highest proportion of bent chassis’ of any country in the world (based on our observational research)?
16. That Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa?
17. The staple food in Rwanda and Uganda is green bananas, rather than maize pap/nsima/ugali like it is in Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya etc?
18. Anywhere north of Zambia means you cannot drink water straight out of the tap? And so all drinking water needs to be boiled (uses a lot of gas and takes a long time to cool down to drinking temperature), treated with chlorine tablets (tastes a bit like chlorine) or bought in a bottle (not great for the environment and costly)
19. Lake Victoria (which is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya), is the largest lake in Africa (by area) and the largest tropical lake in the world?
20. The marabou stork has the largest wingspan of any bird in the world (with claimed recordings of up to 4m!)?
21. That if you’re planning a trip through southern and east Africa you need the following vaccinations: hepatitis A&B, meningitis, rabies, cholera, tetanus, yellow fever, diphtheria, typhoid, measles, mumps and rubella?
22. There are 4 strains of malaria and they are only transmitted through bites of Anopheles mosquitoes? While approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria, most malaria cases and deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
23. 49.9% of the Ugandan population is under the age of 15 and its population growth rate is the 3rd fastest in the world?
24. Namibia has the world’s highest gini coefficient (i.e highest income inequality)? South Africa comes in at 3rd.
1. That Namibia employs day-light saving?
2. That the Botswanan Pula is stronger than the South African Rand?
3. That Zambia has over 72 different languages?
4. That the official currency of Zimbabwe is the US Dollar, but they only use the notes so change is a bit of an issue and so you end up receiving it as Rands or in exchange for a lollipop or 2?
5. That the most expensive game animal that has been sold in SA is a buffalo bull, for over R9 million?
6. That Namibia is the 4th least densely populated country in the world?
7. In Tanzania the time can be very confusing? In “Swahili time”, the day starts at sunrise (6am) which is refered to as 0 o’clock. That means lunch is served at 6:30 and your post-breakfast snorkelling trip at 4 o’clock in the morning.
8. Lake Malawi has the largest variety of cichlids (tropical fish) of any lake in the world? And over 90% of the cichlids in Lake Malawi do not occur anywhere else in the world? Incidently, many of them cannot swim across open water and so are contained to certain islands within the lake itself.
9. While around 35% of the Tanzanian population is Muslim, the figure for Zanzibar island is drastically higher at 97%?
10. That in Rwanda, plastic bags are illegal and as a result the country is virtually litter-free?
11. You drive on the righthand side of the road in Rwanda?
12. That the Rwandan government has declared it illegal to build the roof of any building out of natural materials and so they now have to be either corrugated iron or tiles?
13. Rwanda has laid 2 300 kilometres of fibre optic cables across the country to link it to undersea cables running along the east African coast, the country is on the brink of nation-wide high-speed internet?
14. There are rural Rwandan schools in which each child has a laptop? The President Kagame has a One Child One Laptop goal for all children by 2020.
15. That Tanzania has the highest proportion of bent chassis’ of any country in the world (based on our observational research)?
16. That Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa?
17. The staple food in Rwanda and Uganda is green bananas, rather than maize pap/nsima/ugali like it is in Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya etc?
18. Anywhere north of Zambia means you cannot drink water straight out of the tap? And so all drinking water needs to be boiled (uses a lot of gas and takes a long time to cool down to drinking temperature), treated with chlorine tablets (tastes a bit like chlorine) or bought in a bottle (not great for the environment and costly)
19. Lake Victoria (which is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya), is the largest lake in Africa (by area) and the largest tropical lake in the world?
20. The marabou stork has the largest wingspan of any bird in the world (with claimed recordings of up to 4m!)?
21. That if you’re planning a trip through southern and east Africa you need the following vaccinations: hepatitis A&B, meningitis, rabies, cholera, tetanus, yellow fever, diphtheria, typhoid, measles, mumps and rubella?
22. There are 4 strains of malaria and they are only transmitted through bites of Anopheles mosquitoes? While approximately half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria, most malaria cases and deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
23. 49.9% of the Ugandan population is under the age of 15 and its population growth rate is the 3rd fastest in the world?
24. Namibia has the world’s highest gini coefficient (i.e highest income inequality)? South Africa comes in at 3rd.
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