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| Oldest Competitive Walker Philip Rabinowitz of Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, is the oldest active competitive walker. 2004 |
| Fastest Cape Town to Cairo Run Nicholas Bourne of the UK, completed the first and fastest run from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. Leaving Cape Town on January 21, 1998, he covered over 12,000 km (7,500 miles) before arriving at the Great Pyramids on December 5, 1998. He covered more than 67 km (42 miles) a day. |
| Most People Scuba Diving Simultaneously The greatest number of people scuba diving simultaneously at the same location is 592, at an event organized by the Durban Underwater Club at Vetch's Pier, Durban, South Africa, on July 7th, 2001. |
| Longest Hot Dog The world’s longest hot dog measured 10.5 m (34 ft 5.25 in) and was made by students from the University of Pretoria and displayed at the Sonop Hostel, Pretoria, South Africa on October 18, 2003. |
| Longest salad bar The longest continuous salad bar was constructed by Nola Mayonnaise (South Africa) and measured 201.2 m (660.10 ft). The salad bar was displayed at the Kyalami Exhibition and Conference Center, Johannesburg, South Africa on February 2, 2002. The total weight of the salad bar was 2,0635 kg (4,548.13 lb). The ingredients consisted of 375 kg (826.73 lb) of cucumber, 200 kg (440.92 lb) onions, 455 kg (1,003.10 lb) tomatoes 975 kg (2,149.50 lb) lettuce and 58.5 kg (128.97 lb) Nola Big Squeeze salad dressing. |
| Largest Ballet Class A total of 530 people from 41 ballet schools took part in an hour-long ballet class ą la barre organized by Cape Town City Ballet at Canal Walk shopping center, Cape Town, South Africa, on October 12, 2003. Participants ranging in age from 10 to 52 years old were led by the Cape Town City Ballet's publicist – and former company member – Andrew Warth. |
| Most Jalapeno Chili Peppers Eaten In One Minute Anita Crafford of South Africa consumed eight jalapeno chili peppers in one minute at the Chili Fiesta, Cape Town, South Africa, on August 10, 2002. The chili peppers were an average length of 7.62–10.16 cm (3–4 in), and medics were on standby in case of over-heating! |
| Largest Collection Of Nail Clippers Andrč J. Ludwick of Parys, South Africa, has collected 505 different nail clippers since 1971. Ludwick believes that a nail clipper’s unique technical and mechanical design makes it a remarkably useful and elegant instrument, and his favorite – also one of the oldest – was handmade by a blacksmith in 1935. |
| Fastest Dog Weaving Between Poles The fastest time for a dog to weave between 60 poles is held by a Border Collie named Jazz, owned by Lita Jansen (South Africa) of Cape Province Dog Club, who achieved a time of 12.98 secs on 4 Dec 1999 in George, South Africa. |
| Largest Radish A world-record radish, weighing 17.2 kg (37 lb 15 oz) was grown by the Litterini family of Tanunda, South Africa, in 1992. |
| Tallest Easter Egg On April 4, 1996, the Rotary Club of Piet Retief, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, made an Easter egg which was 7.65 m (25 ft 1 in) high. Made of marshmallow and chocolate, it weighed 4,068 kg (8,968 lb) and was supported by an internal steel frame. |
| Longest Kebab The Dutch Reformed Church Wonderboompoort made a kebab measuring 1,554.65 m (5,100.56 ft) in Denyssen Avenue, Mountain View, Pretoria, on May 6, 2000. |
| Largest Pizza The largest pizza ever baked was one measuring 37.4 m (122 ft 8 in) in diameter, made at Norwood Hypermarket, Norwood, South Africa on December 8, 1990. The Norwood pizza's diameter was 3.5 m (11.5 ft) larger than the previous world record set by Pizza Hut, Singapore, in June 1990. The ingredients included 4,500 kg (9920 lb) of flour, 90 kg (198 lb) of salt, 1,800 kg (3,968 lb) of cheese, and 900 kg (1,984 lb) of tomato puree. |
| Most Juice Trodden In 2 Mins Gabriel Jonker and Ryno van Zyl (both South Africa) trod 50 kg (110 lb) of grapes in two minutes, resulting in 21.17 litres (37.25 pints) of juice being extracted at the WHOOSH festival, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa on March 6, 2004. |
| Longest Pizza Delivery On March 22nd, 2001 Bernard Jordaan of Butlers Pizza, Cape Town, South Africa, hand-delivered a pizza to Corne Krige, the captain of the Fedsure Stormers rugby team in Sydney, Australia, a distance of 11,042 km (6,861 miles) as the crow flies. |
| Longest On August 22, 2003, students from Aurora Private School, Randburg, South Africa, lined up 27,378 aluminum drink cans in their 'Can Challenge', creating the world’s longest line of cans. |
| Longest Moving Advertising Billboard To launch the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Channel 2 on May 11, 1998, a 268.25-m (880-ft 1-in) billboard, covering an area of 1,072.19 sq m (11,541 sq ft) was installed on a train traveling between cities in Gauteng province. |
| Deepest Root The greatest reported depth to which roots have penetrated has been calculated at 120 m (393.7 ft) for a wild fig tree at Echo Caves, near Ohrigstad, Transvaal, South Africa. The common fig is a member of the genus Ficus. Ficus is a large genus with some 2,000 tropical and subtropical tree, shrub, and vine species distributed around the whole world. |
| Largest Wine Cellar The cellars of Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging (KWV), in Paarl, Cape Province, the center of the wine-growing district of South Africa, cover an area of 22 ha (54 acres) and have a capacity of 121 million liters (27 million gal). |
| Fastest Caravan tow A Mercedes Benz S600 driven by Eugene Herbert (South Africa) reached a speed of 223.881 km/h (139.113 mph) towing a standard caravan at Hoedspruit Air Force Base, South Africa, on October 24, 2003. The record attempt was arranged by Risk Administrative Consultants. |
| Longest Journey By Taxi The longest taxi journey is one of 34,908 km (21,691 miles), with a (waived!) £40,210 (US$64,656) fare. Jeremy Levine, Mark Aylett, and Carlos Arrese traveled from London to Cape Town, South Africa, and back, from June 3 to October 17, 1994. |
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