How well do you know South Africa VI?

Question

This week's version of Flinkdink.

1. Which SA city is the only city in the world with drive-in pubs?
2. Which SA airport has the longest runway in Africa?
3. Where in SA did both the last Cape lion and the tallest British soldier during the Anglo-Boer war die?
4. What is the biggest nature conservation area in southern Africa?
5. During which war where South Africans were involved, were the first propaganda films shot?

Answer 1

1.Half-way House Drive-in Pub - "The Half" - Situated half way between Kimberley city centre and Beaconsfield
2.Upington Airport - one of the world's longest commercial runways - it's certainly the longest runway in Africa. At 4900m long, it can land a space shuttle!
3.Leeu Gamka
a village in the Prince Albert municipal district - the tallest soldier in the British Army and the first Australian to die in the Anglo-Boer War. Private Schultz, of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, stood almost 7ft tall.
4.The Kruger Park & Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park-The Kruger National Park is the largest game reserve in South Africa. ... In October 2001 the name was changed to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. ...
5.World War II - When World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939, both Russia and Germany had established film propaganda machines. Vladimir Lenin, the first head of the Soviet government after the Russian Revolution of 1917, said, "of all the arts, the most important for us is the cinema"; he understood that movies could help spread the goals of the revolution to rural areas and provide visual information for illiterate peasants.
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I think i was wrong on 5 - it was the Anglo - boer war - On 14 October 1899, three days after the declaration of Anglo-Boer War, W K L Dickson (who had perfected the motion picture camera set out for South Africa to record the war on film.

The Warwick Trading Company appointed Edgar Hyman in South Africa to also record the war on film. He was equipped with a neat portable camera supplied to him by Charles Urban, founder and manager of the Warwick trading company.
Film as a medium for propaganda was discovered and exploited during the Anglo Boer War.

Answer 2

1. Kimberley had a drive-pub some years ago. Is it still operating?
2. I'm guessing Lanceria?
3. I'd love to know this one.
4.The cross border Mgadigadi Kalahari Gemsbok park?
5. Must be the Anglo Boer War

Answer 3

1. Pass
2. Upington
3. Pass
4. The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
5. Boer War

Answer 4

1. Not sure on this one, but Kimberly sounds like a good bet.
2. I agree with zxcv, im sure its Upington
3. No clue. Leeu Gamka?
4. Id wager the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
5. The Anglo boer war. I dont think many ppl know how many modern techniques were introduced in that war: Guerilla tactics, trench warfare, scorched earth, camoflage, snipers, propaganda, concentration camps...

Answer 5

Vango…..eish, where do you get this information? Let me try

1. Kimberley…..seems that they are first with everything…so they should be the last
2. Upington…….told it was used as defence force landing strip…….
3. Leeu Gamka ……. I once passed here, I’m 90% sure on this one!!!!
4. Kruger Transfrontier Park……..can you see I took out “national”, an opted for the new "transfrontier" in an attempt to get this one right?
5. Second world war ……just a wild guess as first people to do propanga films were Nazis…

Answer 6

1. Kimberly
2. Upington
3. Leeu Gamka
4. Pass
5. Pass

Sorry Vango, I know that we should do research but I just cannot concentrate after the news about Commodore.
Thanks for the very educative questions though and please give us the correct answers.

Answer 7

1) It must be Cape Town
2) OR Tambo
3) Northern Cape
4) Kruger/Mozambique/Zimbabwe
5) World war 2 I think its Hitler started it.

Answer 8

2. JHB-just guessing
I don't know the rest.