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Orange, white, and blue horizontal stripes, on the white stripe, a backwards Union Flag towards the hoist, the Orange Free State flag hanging vertically and the flag of the South African Republic, towards the fly. Used for both the Union and later Republic of South Africa. Flag of South Africa.
Gallery of sovereign state flags. This gallery of sovereign state flags shows the national or state flags of sovereign states that appear on the list of sovereign states. For flags of other entities, please see gallery of flags of dependent territories. Each flag is depicted as if the flagpole is positioned on the left of the flag, except for ...
N. Flag of Natal. Flag of the Natalia Republic. Flag of the Nieuwe Republiek.
South African English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Languages of South Africa. Religion. Christianity (68%), Islam (2%), Hinduism (1.5%) and indigenous beliefs (28.5%) South Africans are the citizens of South Africa, as well as the global diaspora of South Africa. People born in South Africa before October 6, 1995, are South African citizens.
These cultural groups are also found across southern Africa. The BaSotho are the majority ethnic group of Lesotho. The Tswana make up the majority of the population of Botswana. The Swazi are the majority in Swaziland. The Tsonga are also found in Southern Mozambique. Zulu people in KwaZulu-Natal.
Chinese South Africans. Chinese South Africans ( simplified Chinese: 华裔南非人; traditional Chinese: 華裔南非人) are Overseas Chinese who reside in South Africa, including those whose ancestors came to South Africa in the early 20th century until Chinese immigration was banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1904. [ 2]
Flag of South Africa since 1994. National Flag of the Union – authorised by the Union Flags and Nationality Act 1927, and introduced in 1928. Renamed the "National Flag of the Republic" in 1961, [7] it was used until 1994. National Flag – the current flag, introduced in 1994.
The flag of South Africa was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during South Africa 's 1994 general election, to replace the previous flag used from 1928–1994 . The flag has horizontal bands of red (on the top) and blue (on the bottom), of equal width, separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal "Y ...