Plymouth-Banjul Challenge Plymouth-Banjul Challenge The Plymouth-Banjul Challenge or unofficially the Ultimate Banger Challenge and previously known as the Plymouth-Dakar Challenge, is an annual car event for charity. It is not a race or a competition as its website states. It was first run in 2003 to Dakar and since 2005 to Banjul. It very roughly follows the route of the more famous Dakar Rally, visiting many of the same countries. Participants starting in Europe normally must go to Tarifa in Southern Spain. Then the course runs through Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and finally into the Gambia. The entrants must be driving
South African Country Districts XV South African Country Districts XV The South African Country Districts XV was an invitational rugby union side selected to play against touring international teams.In one of its first guises, the Districts side lost 32-12 against the touring British Isles' Barbarians at Potchefstroom (23/05/69) whose touring party included eight future or former British and Irish Lions with the likes of Mike Gibson,Sandy Arneil,Bob Taylor,John Pullin and John O'Shea having toured the Republic in 1968. In 1978 and 1980 the team was multi-racial in composition. The Districts' multi-racial predecessor was the South African Invitation XV which on 7 June 1975 beat the