Most interesting or lesser-known inventions by South Africans?

[Newusername]

The toothbrush was invented in Brakpan.

If it was invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

No, in Brakpan it is a toofbrush.

 

[gregmcc]

Dolosse

If you go huh.....these

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

so ... apartheid?

 

[Crowley]

Really surprised, Pratley is crap for industrial use but good for home use. Also, that whole crane image is a lie?

No it isn't. They actually did that.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

the most prolific weapon of war in active use today ... the ARD-10 loitering drone, invented right here before being sold off to the Israelis and the Iranians

 

[Pegging]

Tenderpreneurs.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

1. Prepaid mobile at Vodacom
2. Cobb smokeless grill

 

[bwana]

Please call me…

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Standard Transfer Specification, used for prepaid metering, apparently invented at Eskom and now worldwide standard...

 

[Whright]

How to steal a Hilux/Fortuner in under 60 seconds.

 

[Whright]

A mixture of beetroot, garlic, lemon, and African potato as an alternative to antiretroviral drugs.

 

[JerryMungo]

Please call me…

Hayi voetsek

 

[Whright]

Please call me…

@FiestaST

Post the meme.

 

[cguy]

Black-Deena-Tot model (Emmanuel Derman): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black–Derman–Toy_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_crystallography (Aaron Klug)

 

[Lupus]

Tenderpreneurs.

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Chinese and Russians taught them, why do you think they want communism?

 

[FiestaST]

@FiestaST

Post the meme.

 

[wbot]

so ... apartheid?

Technically, we weren't the first though. Been happening since ancient times.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Technically, we weren't the first though. Been happening since ancient times.

we gave it a name, that was apparently our biggest mistake, but also why we can now claim this "invention" as ours

 

[Jefferson D'Arcy]

Dodgy ANC aligned accountants and auditors invented the phrase 'Fruitless and wasteful expenditure' to cover for their party's blatant thievery. It successfully entered common parlance and nobody bats an eyelid.

 

[Cybersurfer]

The ATM couch