I had forgotten how comic the disguised cell phone towers which dot Joburg look ... they come in 'palm tree' and 'fir tree' variants. Do they have this kind of fake tree anywhere else or is it one more case of Local is Lekker?
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Funny you should ask! Plastic palm trees are a decoration of choice in Tibet (moreso, I think, than other places in China from what I've seen.) They come in a range of florescent colors no less, dotting the Himalayan plateau, or at least dotting the cities that dot the plateau...
ReplyDeleteSee http://siteonesolutions.com/tree_masts.php for a UK company supplying such antennas. The SA ones are made locally and were exported at one stage, but I'm not sure they were the first.
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