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Department of Forestry
Department of Forestry has a flag registered with the South African Bureau of
Heraldry on 14 Apr 1971 with the following description:
"Flag (for use on official vehicle of Secretary for Forestry):
On a circular field Vert with a border Sable, an
equilateral triangle Argent edged Sable with sides curved outwardly,
touching the circumference and thereon a tree Vert and
beneath the triangle two axes in saltire Argent, the whole surrounded by
an edge Or and placed on a rectangular field Vert (bottle green).
The name BOSBOU DEPT. FORESTRY appears in letters Sable on a scroll
Argent outlined Sable below the circle".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Flag illustrated in SAVA Journal 1/92, p. 13 (ed).
Department of Interior and Immigration
Department of Interior and Immigration previously used a flag registered with the South African
Bureau of Heraldry on 10 Aug 1979 with the following description:
"Per Scandinavian cross silver and blue, a cross moline
counterchanged, charged in the centre with four staves couped, alternately
silver and blue, banded orange".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Flag illustrated in SAVA Journal 1/92, p.35 and is no longer in use
(ed).
National Intelligence Service
image by Martin Grieve, 18 Aug 2005
The National Intelligence Service used
a flag registered with the South African Bureau
of Heraldry on 3 Apr 1987 with the following description:
"On a blue flag, proportion 3 x 2, a white pile charged
in the hoist with a plume of three blue peacock feathers, oscillated proper,
the quills orange, surmounted by two blue wolf hooks addorsed".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Flag illustrated in SAVA Journal 1/92, p.64 and is no longer in use
(ed).
Department of Water Affairs
Department of Water Affairs has flag registered with the South African Bureau
of Heraldry on 17 Aug 1990 with the following description:
"A rectangular blue flag with proportion 3:2; a white hoist
third ondoyant, to the fly at the top and to the hoist at the bottom, charged
in the canton with two pairs of green stylised leaves conjoined at base
and ensigned with a blue gutta (= drop of water)".
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Flag illustrated in SAVA Journal 1/92, p.82 and is longer in use (ed).
South African Secret Service
South African Secret Service : flag registered with the South African Bureau
of Heraldry on 19 Nov 1996 and described as:
A rectangular flag, proportion 2:3, the upper half fir-twigged
of three, with three vertical panels, the lower quarter of the central panel per chevron, counterchanged in white and green, charged
in the lower centre with a compass rose, facetted in red and black, with
the pointer flory, the outer petals red and the inner petal black.
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Replaces National Intelligence Service flag described above (ed).
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry : flag registered with the South
African Bureau of Heraldry on 26 Mar 1998 and described as:
A rectangular flag with the proportion 2:3, comprising
three vertical bands of green, white and green, respectively 2/5, 3/5 and
2/5 of the width of the flag, the white band charged with a trowel-shaped
tree surmounting two others in fess conjoined, Vert, all voided.
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
Replaces Department of Water Affairs flag described above (ed).