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South African Flag Projected onto World’s Tallest Building and Swiss Alps

The South African flag has today been projected onto the world’s tallest building – the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai – in honour of Freedom Day, 27 April 2020. This comes just days after the SA flag was projected onto the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. On Monday, the Burj Khalifa page said: “Burj Khalifa […]

By Jenni Baxter
27-04-20 23:24
in Fab South African Stuff
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The South African flag has today been projected onto the world’s tallest building – the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai – in honour of Freedom Day, 27 April 2020.

This comes just days after the SA flag was projected onto the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.

On Monday, the Burj Khalifa page said: “Burj Khalifa honours South Africa by lighting up to celebrate Freedom Day #freedomday??”

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At over 828 metres tall, the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) holds the record for being the world’s tallest building, having the elevator with the longest travel distance and – with more than 160 stories – having the highest number of stories in the world.

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The building has been lit up with other flags too, including the British flag on 21 April in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday; and the Swiss flag on 19 April as a “thank you to Switzerland for projecting the UAE flag on the Swiss Matterhorn.”

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Zermatt Tourism illuminated the Matterhorn with several flags between 24 March and 26 April because “light is hope!”. The projections, they said, “sent a sign of hope and solidarity out into the world for five weeks during the difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic”. Now that they prepare to return to everyday life, the displays have stopped… but not before South Africa’s flag was shown on Friday evening.

Zermatt Matterhorn said: “South Africa is also affected by the coronavirus. As a country of immigration, South Africa is a country of hope. We wish the population much courage and strength to overcome the crisis. #Hope #Zermatt #Matterhorn.”