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1937 stamps of South Africa. The first stamp of the Union of South Africa was a 2 1 ⁄ 2 d stamp issued on 4 November 1910. [2] [3] It portrayed the Monarch King George V and the arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. Most South African stamps issued between 1926 and ...
An Orange River Colony £1 revenue stamp issued in 1903. Before South Africa was united in 1910, each part of South African issued their own stamps. These were: British Bechuanaland (1886-1887) Cape of Good Hope (1864-1910) Griqualand West (1877-1879) Natal (c.1855-1910) New Republic (1886) Orange Free State (1856-1892) Orange River Colony ...
The South African Army overran German South West Africa in 1914–15 and, in 1922, a League of Nations mandate gave South Africa the responsibility of administering the colony, now renamed South West Africa. South Africa controlled the postal service until Namibian independence in 1990. After World War II, the mandate was supposed to transform ...
Postage stamps and postal history of Pietersburg; Postage stamps and postal history of South Africa; Postage stamps and postal history of Transvaal; Postal codes in South Africa; Postal orders of Bophuthatswana; Postal orders of South Africa; Postal orders of the Orange Free State; Postal orders of the South African Republic
Revenue stamps of Bechuanaland; Revenue stamps of South Africa; Revenue stamps of the Cape of Good Hope; Revenue stamps of Transvaal; Revenue stamps of Zululand; Raymond Riesco; Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of Southern Africa
An 1868 stamp of the Orange Free State A stamp of the Orange Free State overprinted V.R.I. in 1900 during the British occupation. The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. The Orange Free State was annexed to the British Crown and renamed the Orange River Colony on 28 ...
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The South African Tercentenary International Stamp Exhibition or Suid Afrikaanse Driehonderdjaarfees Posseel Uitstalling (SATISE/SADIPU) was held in the Old Drill Hall, Cape Town from 26 March to 5 April 1952, organized by the Cape Town Philatelic Society and under the chairmanship of William Irving, F.R.P.S.L. [1] Two stamps from the 1952 Van Riebeeck issue were overprinted for the exhibition.