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6 unusual facts about Sun City, North West


Amra-Faye Wright

Wright began her professional career as a dancer in Sun City South Africa, appearing in several musical extravaganzas.

Chesney Brown

They sent Chesney and Kirk invitations to join them in Sun City, North West.

Joan Brickhill

She also worked as an executive entertainment producer at Sun City.

Kill and Kill Again

Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.

Miss South Africa 2009

Miss South Africa 2009 was held on 13 December 2009 in Sun City, South Africa.

TechEd

2007 was also the last year the event was hosted at Sun City, after which it was moved to the Durban International Conference Centre (ICC) due to the growing size of the audience, which was no longer able to be accommodated at Sun City.


Albert Gubay

Gubay sold the mainly North West and Irish based chain of 21 locations and 150,000 members to the private equity arm of Legal & General, in July 2004 for £70 million.

Amy Kleinhans

As the official representative of her country to the 1992 Miss World pageant held in Sun City, South Africa on 12 December, she became Miss World Africa and 4th runner-up to eventual winner Julia Kourotchkina of Russia.

Benedicte Van der Maar

travels to Haiti and photographs the daily battles at Sun City.

Children's Adventure Farm Trust

Each year the Adventure Farm helps 3,000 children aged 4 to 16, coming from all over the North West, with people coming from Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and Derbyshire.

Chris Davies

In December 2009 Davies appeared on The Politics Show North West alongside Nick Griffin on a debate regarding climate change and the then forthcoming 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which both men were attending as part of the EU Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Colonel DeBeers

As of February 2009, Wiskoski was happily living in retirement in Sun City, Arizona.

Grant Hodnett

During that 2011/2012 season he made 4 first class appearances with a highest score of 57 versus North West at Potchefstroom as well as 4 List A appearances.

History of Gaborone

In the 1880s, Kgosi Gaborone of the Batlokoa clan left the Magaliesberg area in the South African province of North West to settle in the southeastern part of Botswana and called the settlement Moshaweng.

Huntley, Illinois

Huntley is best known for its Prime Outlets mall and Sun City retirement community, the largest in the Midwest.

MV True North

MV True North is an expedition yacht operating predominantly in Western Australia's north west.

National Party of Western Australia

In 2009 Vince Catania, the MLA for North West, defected to the Nationals in support of their regional policies.

Rugby League Raw

Rugby League Raw was broadcast in the BBC's North East & Cumbria, Yorkshire & North Midlands, East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire and North West regions and attracted over 400,000 viewers, despite its late night timeslot.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Silver and Gold

"Silver and Gold", song from the Sun City album by Artists United Against Apartheid, also recorded by U2

Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Sixteenth Amendment Act of 2009) transferred Merafong City Local Municipality from North West to Gauteng, altering the boundary between the two provinces.

Sun City

The Sun City Agreement of the Second Congo War, signed 2002 in Sun City, South Africa

Sun City, Arizona

The community is well known to law students, as it is featured in the case Spur Industries v. Del E. Webb Development Co., 494 P.2d 700 (Ariz. 1972), commonly used in first-year property law courses to illustrate nuisance law.

Tangerine Confectionery

In April 2009 the company was ranked 23rd in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100, published by The Sunday Times, and was the highest North West entry in the table, which lists the 100 private UK's companies with the fastest growing profits.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.


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