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Republic of South Africa
Iriphabhuliki Igizimu Africa (Zulu)
Republiek van Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans)
former: Union of South Africa
| Flag of Republic of South Africa |
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| two equal width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a
central green band which splits into a horizontal Y, the arms of which end
at the corners of the hoist side, embracing a black isosceles triangle from
which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the red and blue bands
are separated from the green band and its arms by narrow white stripes note:prior to 26 April 1994, the flag was actually four flags in one: three miniature flags reproduced in the center of the white band of the former flag of the Netherlands, which has three equal horizontal bands of orange (top), white, and blue; the miniature flags are a vertically hanging flag of the old Orange Free State with a horizontal flag of the UK adjoining on the hoist side and a horizontal flag of the old Transvaal Republic adjoining on the other side |