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Up to September
1995 none of the 9 new South African provinces have adopted their own flags
although one or two have proposals in this regard. There is currently a
debate in this country as to whether the provinces should have their own
flags or not with the ruling ANC holding the view that the provinces should not
have individual flags.
Bruce Berry, September 1995
image from this
site, reported by JJ Andersson, 5 May 2002
ARMS: Per fess Gules and Azure, a lozenge Argent charged with a thorn
tree proper, in base two barrulets wavy counter changed and in chief two
daisies Or; the shield ensigned of a coronet comprising a circlet Or, embellished
of Azure and lozengy Gules San beadwork, fimbriated Argent, heightened
of six beadwork torteaux, each charged with an annulet of beadwork Or,
there between as many merlons embowed of beadwork, also Or.
SUPPORTERS: Dexter an oryx (Gazella dorcas) and sinister a kudu (Tragelaphus
strepsiceros).
SPECIAL COMPARTMENT: A rocky ground.
MOTTO: SA K//?A: !ALSI ?ULSI (Literally: "We go good life", in Auni,
a San language from the Kalahari Gemsbok Park region of Gordonia).
Registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry on 21 January 1998.
JJ Andersson, 05 May 2002
The following municipal flags in the former Cape Province, and now falling in the Northern Cape, were registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry. These flags are no longer in use following the introduction of a new municipal dispensation in South Africa after 2000.
Barkly-Wes /Barkley West -De Aar -
Municipal flag registered with
the South African Bureau of Heraldry on 17 Oct 1986 and described as:
"A rectangular flag, proportion three by two, comprising
three horizontal stripes of equal width, from top to bottom blue, white,
blue and at the hoist and vertical red stripe one quarter the width of
the flag, charged with a white ram's head caboshed between two yellow wheels".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Jan Kempdorp -
Municipal
flag registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry on 15 Oct 1975
and described as:
"A rectangular flag, proportions three by two, consisting
of three horizontal stripes of equal width from top to bottom green,
white and blue; on the green, three yellow annulets, on the white, two
black fusils and on the blue, a yellow lion statant, armed red".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Jan Kempdorp used to be the only municipality straddling a provincial
boundary, as it lay across the line separating the Cape Province from Transvaal.
It is now part of the Phokwane Municipality, one of two cross-border municipalities
in the Northern Cape Province (not Eastern Cape), and among several others
created in the 2000 demarcation. Phokwane is counted as being part of the
Northern Cape, since most of it falls into that province, but a small part
of Jan Kempdorp and the former location of Pampierstad fall into North West Province.
Mike Oettle, 25 Jun 2002
Illustrations of the above flags can be found in SAVA Journal 1/92 [brl92] (ed).
