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	South Africa at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		South Africa is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa, and has the largest white population.
		South Africa is one of the oldest nation-states in Africa.
		South Africa is a middle-income, developing country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /South_Africa.html (1146 words)

	South African Coat of Arms
		The Arms did not change when South Africa became a Republic on 31 May 1961 and were adopted unchanged in the Interim Constitution which came into force on 27 April 1994.
		In the symbolic sense this is the implied re-birth of the spirit of South Africa.
		Arms: Or, representations of two San human figures of red ochre, statant respectant, the hands of the innermost arms clasped, with upper arm, inner wrist, waist and knee bands Argent, and a narrow border of red ochre; the shield ensigned of a spear and knobkierie in saltire, Sable.
	flagspot.net /flags/za)coa.html (1487 words)

	ipedia.com: South Africa Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		South Africa is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa, and has the largest white population on the continent.
		South Africa's government operates under a parliamentary system, although the President of South Africa, is Head of State as well as Head of Government.
		South African coats of arms A look at South Africa's history and geography, and how they are reflected in the evolving State coats of arms.
	www.ipedia.com /south_africa.html (1194 words)

	Coat of Arms
		Coat of Arms, also called Shield of Arms, heraldic device dating back to 12th-century Europe, used primarily to establish identity in battle but evolving to denote family descent, adoption, alliance, property ownership, or profession--the oldest extant document being a copy of a roll of arms of the king of England from about 1240.
		Originally the coat of arms was a cloth tunic worn over, or occasionally to conceal, armour; or, in place of armour, it was padded and worn for protection but marked with the shield's identical emblem to aid identification.
		Glen Colepeper, a university professor in South Africa, reports that the motto of his ancestors, the Barbados Culpepers, as well as that of John, Lord Culpeper, was the French: J'espère.
	gen.culpepper.com /historical/coat.htm (2193 words)

	Armoria ecclesiastica - Arms and the Church
		Prince-bishops were not invariably noblemen: the bishop of Mainz who gave that diocese/county its simple coat of arms of a silver wagon-wheel on red was the son of a humble wagon-builder.
		In South Africa, this process could almost be said to have been followed in reverse, since the first church to be established at the Cape was a Dutch Reformed one.
		Arms of the United Congregational Church of South Africa from The Harvest and the Hope: The Story of Congregationalism in Southern Africa, by D Roy Briggs and Joseph Wing (UCCSA).
	uk.geocities.com /kruisstaf/ArmsChurch.html (3451 words)

	Heraldry in South Africa by Frederick Brownell
		After 1939 a measure of local protection was given to the Arms of civic authorities, when the Administrators of the four provinces of South Africa and of South West Africa were given authority to record and protect the Arms of municipalities within their own provinces or territory.
		South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth to all intents and purposes also cut the traditional official links with the heralds in Britain and again left the country without direct access to any official heraldic authority, although in practice the advice of the heralds overseas had not been sought all that often.
		South Africa, with its diverse population, does not consider itself to be tied to any particular heraldic tradition and as such the Bureau has been able to draw on what is best from any source, while at the same time blending both traditions and indigenous elements into a distinctive South African heraldic style....
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~heraldry/page_optima.html (1592 words)

	Order of Mendi for Bravery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Order of Mendi for Bravery is a South African honour, instituted on 30 November 2003.
		The order is granted by the president of South Africa, for bravery in saving life or property.
		Behind the shield are a crossed assegai and knobkierie (war club), and the whole design is surrounded by a border decorated with lion pawprints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Order_of_Mendi_for_Bravery (239 words)

	South Africa
		South Africa is home to the largest land mammal, the African Elephant; the tallest creature, the Giraffe; the fastest mammal, the Cheetah; the largest reptile, the Leatherback Turtle; the largest bird, the Ostrich; the heaviest flying bird, the Kori Bustard; and the largest fish, the Whale Shark.
		South Africa is called 'The Rainbow Nation' because it has 11 official languages - with English being the most commonly spoken.
		South Africa has the third-highest level of biodiversity in the world, and is the only country to contain an entire floral kingdom.
	www.crownrelo.com /crown/newsletter.nsf/2005.21.s.africa.htm (463 words)

	John & Kernick - IP News - Using a Coat of Arms as a Trade Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A question which may arise is whether a businessman can for example incorporate either the entire coat of arms or elements from what he or she perceives as their personal (“family”) coat of arms in a logo to use in relation to the family business.
		To lay claim to an existing authentic coat of arms, one must be able to prove direct lineal descent from an ancestor known to have lawfully born those arms and a mere similarity in surname is totally irrelevant.
		The unauthorized use of a “family” coat of arms may therefore be unlawful in terms of the Heraldry Act, even though it may otherwise comply with all of the provisions of the Trademarks Act.
	www.johnandkernick.co.za /JK_News/Publications/TM_CoatofArms.asp (861 words)

	Icograda \| Feature
		This became an ongoing process and graphic design in South Africa is playing an important role in building the nation by reflecting its past, present and future on behalf of all of its population.
		The buzz of South Africa s township and city life is radically different from another important source of inspiration, the indigenous Afrikaner culture.
		To appreciate South African graphic design, one needs an open mind, flexibility to acknowledge that that rules are made to be broken, the ability to cross the barriers of divergent cultures and often a good a sense of humour.
	www.icograda.org /web/feature-past-single.shtml?pfl=feature-single-2.param&op2.rf1=55 (1288 words)

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		Arms were in general use by noble and knightly families at the turn of the twelfth century; then, about a hundred years later, another device became popular.
		Obviously, as arms are a form of honour and as their design and use is governed by rules, someone must control coats of arms, those who do this, and have done it from very early days, are the Royal Heralds, the ceremonial officers of the Crown.
		Where a Coat of Arms is known we cannot accept responsibility for reproducing another version of the Coat of Arms for that surname if the known version is not communicated to us with order.
	www.hartslog.com /heraldry/orgins.htm (755 words)

	South Africa Coat Of Arms ... South African Heritage
		A national coat of arms, or State emblem, is the highest visual symbol of the State.
		The coat of arms is also a central part of the Great Seal, traditionally considered to be the highest emblem of the State.
		The Coat of Arms is a series of elements organised in distinct symmetric egg-like or oval shapes placed on top of one another.
	www.vuvuzela.com /southafricaartsculture/south_africa_coat_of_arms.htm (1452 words)

	The Family Coat of Arms Shop
		egardless of their origins, coats of arms became military status symbols, and their popularity increased along with the popularity of the tournament, which was developed in the mid-eleventh century in France.
		By 1400 A.D., bearing a coat of arms had become a prerequisite to participation in a tournament, and due to the importance of social standing in such pageants, a coat of arms also became a mark of noble status.
		Your family Coat of Arms is reproduced in authentic heraldic colors on a white collared Golf Shirt.
	www.coatofarms-shop.com /coatofarm5.html (653 words)

	South African Museum - The Motto of the Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On Friday, 11 July 1873 a meeting of the Trustees of the South African Museum was attended by Sir Thomas Maclear, retired Astronomer Royal at the Cape, C.A. Fairbridge, lawyer and bibliophile and R.
		The proposal was generally approved, with Fairbridge suggesting that the coat of arms should not occupy the whole shield but be inserted in miniature.
		It is further mentioned in the annual report of the South African Museum for the year 1876 (published 1877) that the museum received, as a donation from the Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History, a collection of casts of South African fossils, accompanied by the descriptive and illustrated catalogue of Professor Owen.
	www.museums.org.za /sam/hist/motto.htm (2159 words)

	SA's Pohl Family History
		There may however be, through the respective family coat of arms, a connection with a family by the name of von Polentz (Polenz, Polenzk, Polenski.) who lived in the eastern German regions along the Polish border during the fifteenth century.
		Principal features of the coat of arms are the blue ostrich plumes from the Duke's, the silver star of Jerusalem and a golden ship's bell.
		The South African Pohls are in possession of a similar coat of arms which may have been brought here by their ancestor Carl Friedrich Pohl (1768-1844).
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/7847 (372 words)

	Potgieter:Coat of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pama alleges that this Coat of Arms was adopted by a Potgieter family in in 1946.
		Pama alleges that the South African Coat of arms is based on a Netherlands version with three fl beams and three silver horizontal beams, with red triangles laid in the top fl beam.
		Theunissen may also have used another Coat of Arms in use in Europe which is similar to the one used on the front page, except that the triangles at the top was actually fl.
	genealogy.johan-potgieter.com /acoat.htm (497 words)

	International Civic Heraldry - Africa NAMIBIA
		The arms are based on the flag of Namibia, and are rooted in the sand of the Namib Desert.
		The arms were officially approved by the committee on March 9th, and adopted in the first meeting of the new parliament on March 21st.
		The arms were never officially granted, as South Africa was no longer part of the British Commonwealth, and the College of Arms in London could not grant the arms.
	www.ngw.nl /int/afr/namibnat.htm (1181 words)

	Orange Free State (South Africa)
		This flag was registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry as the flag of the Republic of Orange Free State for the Office of the Prime Minister, together with the flag of the South African Republic, on 30 April 1983 (application 8 January 1982, amendment 5 March 1982).
		Arms: On a shield Argent, between three bugle horns Azure, garnished and stringed Gules, a representation of the seal of the Orange Free State Republic as adopted in 1856, viz.
		The story of how the OFS got its odd concoction of a coat of arms was especially interesting to me, since it involved a tricky situation that my ancestor President Boshof had to deal with.
	www.fotw.net /flags/za-o.html (579 words)

	The Arms of Midgley, Yorkshire
		The heralds adjudicated on claims to Arms and rival claims were settled by the King with his Constable and Marshal at a Court of Chivalry.
		This is unlikely to be a genuine coat of arms as it is probably unrecorded in H.M. College of Arms, London.
		There is a second Midgley Coat of Arms in Halifax Parish Church cut on a blue stone within a raised border, painted over, and fixed to the north wall of the Rokeby Chapel.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/arms.html (1891 words)

	Far Shores News Story: Africa Home To Up To 10 Million Rock Art Images
		There may be as many as two million images in South Africa alone; experts say ten million for the whole continent may be a conservative figure.
		Campbell said though some governments - including South Africa - were acting to protect their rock art, most African countries did not have money to spend on cultural heritage.
		South Africans, said Campbell, were showing a steadily growing awareness and appreciation of rock art in their own country - as demonstrated by the use of an image from a San painting on the national coat of arms - and South Africa had probably published more books on rock art than any other country.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/nrockart.htm (770 words)

	SA Nursing Council Coat of Arms
		In South Africa, the lamp is often lit at graduation ceremonies where newly qualified nurses take a vow of service and commitment to their profession.
		A lamp similar to this is lit 24-hours a day in the foyer of the South African Nursing Council building in Pretoria as a symbol of South African nurses' commitment to caring for their patients.
		The coats of arms of government bodies contain full lions and those of statutory bodies contain half-lions.
	www.sanc.co.za /aboutcoa.htm (498 words)

	Coat of Arms Shop - Whats in A Name? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This knowledge of the various devices and symbols was called Heraldry, and as the announcement was accompanied with the sound of a trumpet, it was termed “blazoning the arms.” The earliest coats of arms were fairly simple -- bars or wavy lines, a lion rampant or an eagle displayed, or an arrangement of fleurs-de-lis.
		Regardless of their origins, coats of arms became military status symbols, and their popularity increased along with the popularity of the tournament, which was developed in the mid-eleventh century in France.
		Though many people think that coats-of arms were granted only to nobility, they can actually be found for more than ninety percent of all names.
	www.coatofarms-shop.com /whatsinaname23.html (485 words)

	South African Museum - The Museum Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A flag of arms such as that of the South African Museum is a heraldic banner which derives its design from a coat-of-arms, and is the usual type of flag flown on public buildings occupied by corporate bodies.
		The coat-of-arms of the South African Museum is based on that of the former Cape Colony, the shield of which consisted of a red field with a rampant lion and three rings in gold, surmounted by a silver band or chief with a row of three gold fleurs-de-lis on blue roundels.
		After the Cape Colony was reduced to a Province of South Africa in 1910, it was no longer appropriate for the Museum as a national institution to continue using the Cape arms as it had done since 1877, and a new design had to be found.
	www.museums.org.za /sam/resource/misc/flag.htm (403 words)

	Bushmen - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bushmen (also known as Khwe Khoe, Basarwa, or San) peoples of South Africa and neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, who live in the Kalahari, are part of the Khoisan group and are related to the Khoikhoi.
		Along with the pygmies of Central Africa, the Bushmen have been considered a possible root or source for the female DNA lineage—the so-called Mitochondrial Eve.
		Over the generations, the Bushmen of South Africa have continued to be absorbed into the Coloured population, particularly the Griqua sub-group, which is an Afrikaans-speaking people of predominantly Khoisan stock that has certain unique cultural markers that set them apart from the rest of the Coloureds.
	www.voyager.in /Bushmen (837 words)

	Proudly South African - Sopporters Club
		South Africa's national coat of arms is the highest visual symbol of the country.
		The new coat of arms replaced one that had been around since 1910.
		The design of the Coat of Arms has a series of pieces that look like egg-like or oval shapes - placed on top of one another.
	www.proudlysa.co.za /level2/supporters.asp?include=../campaign/psaweek2003/coa.html (685 words)

	Origins Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ancient art in South Africa: history and national resolve in a period of change.
		Archaeology and symbolism in the new South African coat of arms.
		Archaeology and symbolism in the new South Africa coat of arms.
	southafrican.rockart.museum /index.php?section=14 (3043 words)

	South Africa Web page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the national flower of South Africa, the King Protea.
		This is South Africa's national animal, the Springbok.
		This is South Africa's National fish, the Galjoen.
	www.saskschools.ca /~stnicks/class3/kirsten/mainpage.html (163 words)

	South African Embassy
		South Africa's Minister for Sport and Recreation, Makhenkesi Stofile, was in Lisbon to learn from Portugal's experience as organiser of the 2004 European Soccer Cup.
		Women in South Africa have long been at the forefront of achieving political and social equality and have worked passionately for the upliftment and increased prosperity of their families and communities.
		South Africa celebrations in Madeira took place in Funchal in cooperation with the Pestana Group, at the new Pestana Grand Hotel (Ponta da Cruz, 23, 9000-103 Funchal).
	www.embaixada-africadosul.pt /news.html (1963 words)

	Limpopo Province, South Africa
		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.
		South Africa's northern most province, known as Northern Province since 1994 (initially it was called Northern Transvaal) adopted a new name on Tuesday, 12 February 2002.
		ARMS: Or, a baobab tree and a chief wavy, Vert; the shield ensigned of a circlet Or, heightened of eight cycad leaves supported by sets of buffalo horns, Argent.
	www.fotw.net /FLAGS/za-np.html (316 words)

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