South Africans Enjoy Their Number Plates

Today, I have been reading about South African number plates. It's good to see that drivers in other countries have just as much fun as we do with personalised registrations. I was reading a report by fellow blogger, Gillian McCainsh, editor of La Femme, a South African magazine, and was pleased to see that South Africans not only use personalised number plates to represent names (Gillian spotted CALVIN on a Ford Focus and BONTLE [a surname, I'm guessing] on a black Honda on her way to work), but also to present messages. Wow, that was an exceptionally long sentence. My apologies.

001 MUM appeared on the car of...yep, you guessed it, a mother, while a designer-worshipping type displayed CHICHI. Gillian also came across a car with the registration plate, WOOF. Unable to spot the driver's furry friend on the backseat, Gillian followed the motorist all the way to her place of work - a vet surgery. (I can't help but think that Ms. McCainsh has allowed her interest in number plates to increase to an unhealthy level. Following people around is a little, um, crazy.)

So, South Africans are feeling the joys of private number plates too. It warms my heart, it does really...