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Stafford is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It's an industrial suburb located south of the Johannesburg CBD , close to Springfield . It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality .
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 ...
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 ...
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 Bureau of Heraldry is the South African heraldic authority, established in Pretoria on 1 June 1963. It is headed by a State Herald (known unofficially as the National Herald since 2004) and its functions are to register arms, badges, flags and seals (as well as names and uniforms), to keep a public register, to issue registration certificates and, since 1980, to advise the government on ...
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A 1902 stamp of Transvaal. The Second Boer War erupted in 1899, the war ended the existence of the South African Republic. Stamps of the South African Republic were overprinted "V.R.I." (Victoria Regina Imperatrix, Latin for Victoria, Queen and Empress) or "E.R.I." (Edward Rex Imperator, for Edward VII) between 1900 and 1902. In 1902 stamps for ...
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.