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Flag of South Africa - Respect for the flag. South African law says that the flag must at all times be treated with "dignity and respect". Regulations Regarding the Flying of the National Flag, published just before the flag was adopted in 1994, indicates the rules for the display of the flag. Official regulation states that the flag must never touch the ground or floor, be used as a table cloth or draped in front of a platform, cover a statue, plaque, cornerstone etc. at unveiling or similar ceremonies, s ...

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A pall is a Y shaped heraldic charge. An example of a (fesswise) pall is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa. A pall that stops short of the shield's edges is called a shakefork or pairle. Traditionally, a pall on a shield often indicates a connection with the clergy, particularly bishoprics. Charge | Divisions | Field | Lines | Ordinary | Tincture Bend | Canton | Chevron | Chief | Cross | Fess | Flaunch |

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In 1674, a Royal Proclamation of Charles II confirmed that the Red Ensign was the appropriate flag to be worn by British merchant ships. The wording of the 1674 proclamation indicates that the flag was customarily being used by British merchantmen before that date. At this time, the ensign displayed the English Cross of St George in the canton. In 1707, an Act of Union united Scotland, England and Wales in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which resulted in a new red ensign. This flag placed the first Union Flag1 ...

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The New Zealand Red Ensign with the Union Flag in the first quarter, and the Southern Cross, represented by four five-pointed white stars featured in the fly became the official flag in New Zealand for merchant vessels in 1901.[1] Previously a plain red ensign was used. The red ensign may continue to be flown on land in Maori areas or during Maori events under the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 [2] in recognition of long held Maori preference for red flags. New Zealand law allows the defacement of the flag in acc ...

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The Union of South Africa used a Red Ensign as its de facto national flag from 1910 until 1928, with the shield of its coat of arms in the fly. There was also a Blue Ensign which was mostly used on overseas offices. Both ensigns were changed slightly in 1912 when the shield of the coat of arms was placed on a white roundel. The South African coat of arms that defaced the flag was intended to represent both British and the Boer settlers equally. The most notable usage of the flag was when General Louis Botha flew the flag over Windhoek in what was then German South West Africa after the town ...

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The term Red Ensign is often used in particular to refer to the Canadian Red Ensign, the former de facto national flag of Canada. It was informally adopted following Canadian Confederation in 1867 and, from 1892, it was the official flag for use on Canadian merchant ships, but on land the official national flag was the Union Flag. Despite its lack of official status the Red Ensign was widely used on land as well. In 1924 it was approved for use on Canadian government buildings outside Canada, and in ...

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The Australian Red Ensign, is a red version of the Australian Flag and is a reserved civil ensign. From 1901 to 1954 the flag was used as a civil flag, to be flown by private citizens on land, while the government used the Blue Ensign reflecting British practice. In 1941, Prime Minister Robert Menzies stated that there should be no restrictions on private citizens using the Blue Ensign on land and, in 1947, Prime Minister Ben Chifley reaffirmed this position but it wasn't until the passage of the Flags Act 1953 that the restriction on ...

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An addendum to the Transitional Executive Council agenda (April 1994) described the flag in heraldic terms as follows: The National flag shall be rectangular in the proportion of two in the width to three to the length; per pall from the hoist, the upper band red (chilli) and lower band blue, with a black triangle at the hoist; over the partition lines a green pall one fifth the width of the flag, fimbriated white against the red and blue, and gold against the black triangle at the hoist, and the width of the pall ...

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After the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902 and the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the British Union Flag became the national flag of South Africa. As was the case throughout the British Empire, the Red and Blue Ensign with the Union coat of arms were granted by British Admiralty warrants in 1910 for use at sea. These ensigns were not intended to be used as the Union's national flag, although they were used by some people as such, especially the Red Ensign. It was only after the first post-Union Afrikaner ...

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When the new flag was designed, it was specifically stated that the colours had no official meaning or symbolism, other than their choice from their use in the past. However, in recent times an unofficial consensus has been reached in terms of an accepted meaning for the flag and its colours. The pall (Y) is stated to symbolise the convergence as one unified nation. Whilst according to Brownell at the time, the red symbolises the blood shed in the country's various conflicts and wars. The blue represents the sky and the two oceans that surro ...

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