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by Jorge Candeias, 11 Apr 2001
You have a flag of that ghastly squiggle logo that represents Table
Mountain. I saw two examples of different squiggles (both representing
the mountain) when I was down in Cape Town about 2 years ago. I saw neither
on a flag - both were on boardings. One of the two logos was for the Greater
Cape Town Metropolitan Council (covering the entire Cape Peninsula except
for the nature reserve at the southern tip, the Cape Flats, Somerset West,
Strand, Gordon's Bay, the Tygerberg area and the areas on the north shore
of Table Bay) and the other for the Cape Town Municipality (a sub-metropolitan
regional council covering the so-called City Bowl, the southern suburbs
near the mountain down as far as Wynberg, and the Atlantic seaboard, I
think including Hout Bay).
I can't recall which logo was which - the drawbacks of trendy design!
But my reason for writing is that in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s there
was a navy blue or royal blue flag bearing the arms of Cape Town: a gold
shield bearing an anchor, with a red inescutcheon bearing three annulets.
I couldn't quote you the dimensions off-hand, but it was regularly flown
at municipal congresses. The Coat of Arms can be found on this
site.
Mike Oettle, 18 Dec 2001
Mike Oettle is correct. The old flag of the City o