Blue, green and red with the city’s coat of arms in a golden knot: the 1997 flag of Johannesburg takes the colours of the new South Africa.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into three vertical stripes, blue, green and red, separated by two white fillets (narrow stripes). The green one, in the centre, is the widest.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
It was approved by the mayor in 1970
In the 1990s South Africa changed its symbols with the arrival of democracy
The city adopted it on 16 May 1997 to replace the 1970 flag
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, has three vertical stripes, blue, green and red, and in the centre the coat of arms of the city inside a golden knot. Its colours recall those of the flag of South Africa, adopted three years earlier, at the end of apartheid.
The city adopted it on 16 May 1997 to replace the 1970 flag. In the 1990s South Africa changed its symbols with the arrival of democracy, and Johannesburg wanted a flag in the colours of the new country.
Johannesburg has had two flags.
1970-1997
Green with a gold stripe in the centre and three golden seals taken from the old coat of arms. It was approved by the mayor in 1970.
1997
The current flag, with the colours of the new South Africa.
Blue, white, green and red
the colours of the national flag of South Africa.
Coat of arms in the centre
the emblem of the city, surrounded by a knot that also appears on the coat of arms itself.
The city’s first flag, of 1970, was green and gold, with none of the colours we today associate with South Africa. It was used for 27 years.
The golden interlace in the centre of the flag also appears, smaller, inside the city’s coat of arms, in red and gold.
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