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'''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[
  
 
'''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban
 
'''uShaka Marine World'''[http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/], Durban

Revision as of 07:41, 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[

uShaka Marine World[4], Durban

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum[5] , Pretoria

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_park