File:Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg

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Summary

Description

Flag of South Africa, used between 1928 and 1982. It is identical to the 1982 to 1994 version except that the shade of blue is darker. It is also known as the "Oranje-Blanje-Blou".

Date

1928

Source

Vectorialized from description found in Southern African Vexillological Association. Flag specification sheets : South Africa national flag 1928-1994

Author

Parliament of South Africa (Vector graphics image by Denelson83)

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:47, 6 January 2021	900 × 600 (2 KB)	Great Brightstar	Technical improves
	09:20, 10 June 2020	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Great Brightstar	Fix three "gaskets"
	11:28, 8 June 2020	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Great Brightstar	Avoid using matrix() function
	19:09, 1 February 2020	900 × 600 (1 KB)	Great Brightstar	Partially revert the change. See some images at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/people-were-invited-to-walk-over-the-old-flag-at-woordfees-in-stellenbosch/, https://www.voices360.com/politics/oranje-blanje-blou-against-the-backdrop-of-anti-racism-week-13852284
	15:09, 24 October 2019	900 × 600 (2 KB)	Great Brightstar	Tweak some elements, remove unused codes
	14:53, 9 October 2019	900 × 600 (2 KB)	Great Brightstar	Minor adjust
	13:34, 6 October 2019	900 × 600 (2 KB)	Great Brightstar	Rework the St. George's Cross based on two paths from File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
	12:00, 6 October 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Adjust the size of three small flags, for example, the Orange Free State flag retains 2:3 ratio, but the height is half of the white stripe of main flag. See South Africa - National 1928-1994 - sheet 1.pdf
	15:10, 25 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Minor adjust
	09:53, 25 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Havsjö	This was discussed before. Historically/IRL the flag used the British flag colours cloth.
	16:13, 24 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Makes green stripe wider, see South Africa - National 1928-1994 sheet 2.pdf
	18:46, 23 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	All colors were picked from http://www.savaflags.org.za/spec/South%20Africa%20-%20National%201928-1994%20sheet%202.pdf
	03:26, 23 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Minor adjust in Union Jack
	18:07, 22 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Fry1989	Those changes will require a source
	15:34, 22 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Minor adjust in Union Jack
	14:58, 22 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	Great Brightstar	Replace some colors as Union Jack Blue and Red
	16:54, 9 September 2019	900 × 600 (3 KB)	FDRMRZUSA	Higher svg resolution by "Inkscape" resizing. Optimized and fixed svg code. No other changes.
	17:14, 25 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Fry1989	This was discussed on the Admins Noticeboard. Stop reverting!
	02:33, 25 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	HugeMackerel	Reverted to version as of 20:44, 18 November 2018 (UTC) Version with colors according to SAVA, as well as no reason given for previous revert.
	01:59, 25 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Fry1989	Reverted to version as of 16:25, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
	20:44, 18 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	HugeMackerel	No reason specified for revert. Reverted to version as of 04:51, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
	16:25, 18 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Yann	Reverted to version as of 06:31, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
	04:51, 16 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Director	"Definitely not correct" is not an argument. On the contrary: they definitely are correct, as they are recommended by experts on the topic (SAVA). I.e. - the actual source of this file.
	18:45, 15 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Fry1989	Those colours are definitely not correct.
	13:42, 15 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Director	Restored the version based on the source of this image. As opposed to someone's impression from looking at a scanned page.
	23:35, 5 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Havsjö	CMYK values in source are only recommended and are also incorrect as they produce a bright green instead of blue. No depiction of example of the flag is purple and even the image of the flag give by the vexillogical institute (the current colour shade source) show a dark blue, the same shade as the old version of this file.
	11:22, 5 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 14:36, 4 November 2018 (UTC) - Reverter gave no reason given for revert.
	01:15, 5 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 21:28, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
	14:36, 4 November 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 01:54, 26 October 2018 (UTC) - No reason given for revert.
	21:28, 2 November 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 06:31, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
	01:54, 26 October 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 13:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC) - No reason given for revert.
	06:31, 24 October 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Tcfc2349	Reverted to version as of 10:26, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
	13:35, 20 October 2018	594 × 396 (14 KB)	Director	Exact recommended colours specified (with CYMK code) in the Southern African Vexillological Association source.
	10:26, 22 September 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Tcfc2349	Reverted to version as of 17:24, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
	10:23, 22 September 2018	594 × 396 (2 KB)	Tcfc2349	reduce size
	17:24, 26 May 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 19:20, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
	17:22, 26 May 2018	594 × 396 (2 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 09:45, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
	19:20, 25 May 2018	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	Reverted to version as of 15:41, 15 November 2017 (UTC) The simplification caused a white gap to appear near the green rectangle.
	09:45, 8 January 2018	594 × 396 (2 KB)	Alkari	code cleanup and file size reduction
	15:41, 15 November 2017	594 × 396 (15 KB)	Illegitimate Barrister	aligned the icon
	18:19, 21 February 2012	594 × 396 (1 KB)	NikNaks	Are all the blues meant to be the same? Nevertheless, optimised.
	18:17, 21 February 2012	594 × 396 (1 KB)	NikNaks	Are all the blues meant to be the same? Nevertheless, optimised.
	07:45, 21 February 2012	585 × 390 (4 KB)	Fry1989	fixing colours a bit
	07:53, 2 February 2012	585 × 390 (1 KB)	NikNaks	Reverted, as per discussion on the GL
	07:26, 1 February 2012	585 × 390 (9 KB)	Fry1989	thank you, just fixing the scale problem and we are good :)
	07:14, 1 February 2012	585 × 390 (1 KB)	NikNaks	Adding extra stripe
	21:51, 31 January 2012	756 × 504 (2 KB)	Fry1989	we'll just leave it like this until you add the missing white stripe, then we'll be good (see graphic lab/illustrations))
	18:15, 31 January 2012	756 × 504 (2 KB)	NikNaks	Redoing in hope of fixing rendering issues
	18:13, 31 January 2012	600 × 400 (2 KB)	NikNaks	Redoing in hope of fixing rendering issues
	21:57, 24 January 2012	600 × 400 (2 KB)	Fry1989	the borders are part of the design
	14:47, 24 January 2012	756 × 504 (4 KB)	Wester	Reverted to version as of 06:14, 25 November 2011
	21:46, 26 November 2011	756 × 504 (2 KB)	Alkari	reduce border width
	01:06, 26 November 2011	756 × 504 (2 KB)	Alkari	added borders to flags in middle; cleaned up code and reduced file size
	06:14, 25 November 2011	756 × 504 (4 KB)	Fry1989	blue, flags in the middle need a proper doing
	23:11, 25 October 2011	756 × 504 (1 KB)	Alkari	code cleanup and precision
	05:34, 29 June 2006	900 × 600 (8 KB)	Denelson83	Flipping UK flag, as per Commons talk:WikiProject Flags#Image:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
	22:31, 11 February 2006	900 × 600 (8 KB)	Denelson83	Flag of w:South Africa, used between 1928 and 1994. From the xrmap flag collection 2.9, with modifications by User:Denelson83. It's easy to put a border around this flag: {{border\|100px}} {{Insignia