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'''Crocodile Creek'''[http://www.crocodilecreek.co.za/], Durban  
 
'''Crocodile Creek'''[http://www.crocodilecreek.co.za/], Durban  
  
[[Gold Reef City]], Gauteng
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[[Gold Reef City]], Gauteng[http://www.goldreefcity.co.za]
  
 
'''Ratanga Junction'''[http://www.ratanga.co.za/], Cape Town
 
'''Ratanga Junction'''[http://www.ratanga.co.za/], Cape Town
  
[[Sun City]]
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[[Sun City]], Northwestern Province[http://www.sun-city-south-africa.com/]  
  
 
'''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban
 
'''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban
  
[[Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum]] , Pretoria
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'''Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum'''[http://www.willemprinsloomuseum.co.za/] , Pretoria
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:58, 23 November 2015

A Theme Park is really a focused or specialized form of amusement park, which has its activities and features focused on a specific theme, historic period, activity ands so on. Often closely aligned to or combined with a museum.

In many ways theme parks are also performative in nature, providing spaces in which (anthropological, technological, historical, futuristic, etc ) re-enactments, reconstructions, and related activities take place.


Some South African theme parks

Crocodile Creek[1], Durban

Gold Reef City, Gauteng[2]

Ratanga Junction[3], Cape Town

Sun City, Northwestern Province[4]

uShaka Marine World[5], Durban

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum[6] , Pretoria

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