1. South Africa was ranked as the 18th most attractive destination for Foreign Direct Investment by global strategic management consulting firm AT Kearney. 
  2. Johannesburg has been ranked as the eighth cheapest city in the world for expatriates, according to the most recent Cost of Living Standards Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
  3. More than 12,000 ‘Black Diamond’ families (South Africa’s new black middle class) - or 50,000 people - are moving from the townships into the suburbs of South Africa’s metro areas every month, according to the UCT Unilever Institute’s Black Diamonds 2007 survey.
  4. The black middle class grew by 30% in 2005, adding another 421,000 black adults to SA’s middle-income layer and ramping up the black population’s share of SA’s total middle class to almost a third, according to the Financial Mail. Between 2001 and 2004, there were 300,000 new black entrants to the middle class.
  5. Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world after Washington, D.C.
  6. In 1991, South Africa became the first country in the world to protect the Great White shark.
  7. Stellenbosch University was the first university in the world to design and launch a microsatellite.
  8. Of the 10 LSM levels ( LSM1=poorest; LSM10 wealthiest ), the average SA family located in LSM6.

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