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[edit] City populations

Am I the only one who finds List_of_largest_cities_in_South_Africa_by_population suspicious. It looks to me like it is based on district populations not city populations... It is in one of those boxy things on the bottom of pages too, so will be a job to fix/remove. Had a look at 2001 census site is a mess the way only the South African government beurocracy know's how... couldn't corroborate those figures. 198.54.202.242 17:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latest News

  • Anybody interested in South African history? I'm thinking about starting a WikiProject dedicated to expanding and improving the current coverage of the history of South Africa. If you think you would be interested then leave me a note; if there's clear interest then I'll start one off.
Best wishes, Xdamrtalk 03:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
  • The South African Wikipedians' Notice Board has been created.

[edit] Requests

  • I would love to add a few articles on South African plants - specifically of the fynbos and succulent varieties. Anyone else keen? Can anyone explain why Wikispecies has so little plant info compared to Wikipedia, and which is the more important to update for plants? This site has some nice resources Protea Atlas Project homepage. My talk page - AndrewMoir


  • I'm writing some articles about South African locomotives, especially steam locomotives, for the German Wikipedia. When I lived in South Africa (1976-1981), I was to small to take pictures, so I would be grateful if someone would make some PD pictures available for the Wikipedia. Please contact me here or on my user talk page. --FritzG 16:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • The page on Sport in South Africa needs a lot of work! There are only the 3 mainline sports there! What about golf, athletics, swimming etc? How about an article on Jukskei?! Shado.za 06:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I was eventually sidetracked onto the Table Mountain article, and noticed that there is no photo of the Mountain in it's usual configuration, flanked by Devil's Peak and Lion's Head. An example was offered (see the Table Mountain talk page) here. Is there a Capetonian with a high-quality image like this one? Warrickball (talk) 09:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help wanted in a hurry!

Hello all on the South Africa portal. My name is Thor Malmjursson, and I recently tagged an article on Wikipedia about a South African quiz show, Noot vir Noot, hosted by Johan Stemmet. The issue is that the article is a copyright infringement of an Afrikaans language website here 1 albeit a translated copyvio. After reading some of the further research on this show on the net, I just realised how popular this show is, and the fact that unless the article is re-written within one week, it will get deleted, which from what I now know, is a great shame.

Could someone from the SA Portal or any associated wikiprojects, please see to re-writing this article so that there is no copy violation on it? Thanks very much. Thor Malmjursson 01:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huguenots in South Africa

A new article on this topic has been created by me.--MacRusgail 17:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)