Nelson Mandela city (South Africa)

Eastern Cape Province

Last modified: 2005-02-06 by bruce berry
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality flag

Today, 20 June 2002, saw the official launch of the coat of arms and flag of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. In addition to the flag there is also a banner.
At the launch this morning there were two flags, one already hoisted on a flagpole on the City Hall roof (on the flagpole where the old Port Elizabeth used to be hoisted), and one on a pole in the entrance porch, but the only device formally unfurled was the banner, which was specially rigged up on a horizontal pole above the entrance.
No proportions are specified for either flag or banner, and the flag image follows the proportions of the miniature flags handed out at the launch.

I’m not sure when the Port Elizabeth flag was taken into use, but the Arms on it are those granted in 1952 – see my page . The flag could be seen flying on the City Hall from at least 1979 onwards, but ceased to have official status at the end of 2000 following the reorganisation of local government in South Africa. Following the December 2000 municipal elections, all the existing municipalities in the country were merged into new ones. There had, since 1995, been four metropoles: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban. (These four had boundary adjustments, and I think Pretoria, at least,