is a leopard, a common animal found in South Africa, with green hair wearing a shirt saying South Africa 2010.Zakumi's green and gold colors represents South African national sports' teams colors. He is the South African mascot for the FIFA 2010 coming up in June and July this year.
His name comes from "ZA", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in various African languages.
Keep your eyes out for Zakumi when you come to hike in our mountains when you visit our beautiful country :)
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