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4 unusual facts about Springbok


Glamorganshire Golf Club

The mounted head of a Springbok, presented to the Barbarians team after they defeated the South African national team in 1961, remains on display in the golf club’s bar to this day.

Kahlen Rondot

The judges were most impressed with Kahlen's portrayal of the Springbok, South Africa's national animal, and when she portrayed Wrath during a shoot based on the 7 Deadly Sins.

Springbok

Examples of food items eaten by springbok are grasses, such as Themeda triandra, and succulent plants, such as Lampranthus.

After the demise of apartheid, the African National Congress government decreed that South African sporting teams were to be known as the Proteas after the national flower of South Africa.


Bushmanland

Bushmanland, Northern Cape, south of the Orange River and west of Kenhardt and east of Springbok (Namaqualand) in the Northern Cape, South Africa

Coert Steynberg

The springbok design was reused on the 5 shilling and 50 cents crowns from 1948 to 1964, the gold 1/2 Pound and 1 Pound coins of the 1952-60 issues, the gold 1 Rand and 2 Rand of the 1961-83 issues, and on the Krugerrand medal-coin issues that have been issued since 1967.

Dithakong

Dithakong is the birthplace of Matthews Batswadi, the first black South African athlete to be awarded national sporting colours, known as Springbok Colours, after the institutionalisation of Apartheid by the Nationalist Party government following its election victory in 1948.

Ertjies Bezuidenhout

A student at the Potchefstroom University from 1976 to 1978, he exercised relentlessly to become a Springbok cyclist.

Fairbridges Attorneys

Among the many who have served their articles with the firm were William Bell who established the South African Law Journal, JW Sauer who became Minister of Justice of South Africa, Ted Sceales who was Chairman of SA Breweries, and Springbok rugby centre Peter Whipp.

Philip J. Nel

Philip Jacobus Nel (17 June 1902, in Kranskop district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – 11 February 1984, in Greytown) was a former South African Springbok captain.

Short Springbok

The first of these S.3a Springbok IIs (numbered J7925-J7927) was flown by Shorts' Chief Test Pilot J. Lankester Parker at the Isle of Grain on 25 March 1925.


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