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Grahamstown (South Africa)

Eastern Cape Province

by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 18 May 2002, after image from this site, reported by Mark Sensen, 5 Sep 2000

Grahamstown flag
Grahamstown Coat of Arms
Rhodes University

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Grahamstown flag

Grahamstown, Grahamstad or Rini - Province: Eastern Cape (until 1994, Cape of Good Hope Province, usually called Cape Province); District Council: Western Region (previously Albany Division). Additions: Rini (1995). Incorporated into Makana Municipality, 2000.
In March 1984 the City of Grahamstown adopted a flag, one of six designs prepared by heraldic expert Prof. Hugh Smith, of Rhodes University. Ten years later it was registered and was gazetted on the same day (in 1994) together with the coat of arms. It is described as:
"A rectangular flag in the proportion 2:3, per saltire red and black, charged with a saltire between above and below an annulet, all yellow, and in the hoist and the fly a white escallop".
Jarig Bakker, 7 March 2001

Grahamstown Coat of Arms

reported by Mark Sensen, 5 Sep 2000

Grahamstown Municipal Arms granted by the London College of Arms in 1912 and registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry in 1994 (Government Gazette dated 29 April ’94) and described as:
Arms: Or, on a pile Gules, three annulets placed 2 and 1 Or; on a chief Sable, three escallops Or.
Crest: Issuant from a mural crown Or, masoned Sable, a plume of three ostrich feathers Sable, embellished Argent, enfiled of an annulet Or.
Mantling: Gules and Or.
Supporters: Dexter a leopard and sinister a giraffe, proper, each charged on the shoulder with an escallop Gules.
Motto: Virtute et Opera.
Jarig Bakker, 7 March 2001

Rhodes University

by Martin Grieve, 29 Mar 2005

Rhodes University is located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The University was established on 31 May 1904 as the Rhodes University College, named for Cecil John Rhodes, diamond and gold magnate, imperialist, sometime Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and founder of the British South Africa Company which colonised Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe and Zambia). Donations towards its founding came largely from the trustees of Rhodes's estate (he had died in 1902) and De Beers Consolidated Mines (which he had founded), as well as several public bodies in what was then called the Eastern Province.

On 10 March 1951 Rhodes became an independent university, to which the University of Fort Hare founded in 1916 in the near-by town of Alice) was affiliated until 1959. Under the apartheid dispensation Fort Hare originally accepted