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by Martin
Grieve, 16 Mar 2011
The Department of Correctional Services/Department van Korrektiewe Dienste
is the government ministry responsible for managing South Africa's prisons.
Bruce Berry,
02 Mar 1998
Department of Correctional Services registered a flag with the South African Bureau of
Heraldry on 12 January 1996 which is described as:
A rectangular green flag, proportions 2:3, with a single
gold horizontal stripe one seventh the width of the flag, across the centre,
in the canton the National Flag of the Republic of South Africa, as described
in the Schedule to Proclamation No. 70, 1994, as published in Government
Gazette No. 15663 of 29 April 1994, and in the lower fly the badge of the
Department of Correctional Services.
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
![[Department of Correctional Services old flag]](../images/z/za_cord.gif)
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by António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 June 2002 and Martin
Grieve, 23 Aug 2002
The original South African Prisons Service flag was taken into use in 1986. It was inaugurated by the then Minister of Justice, Mr Kobie Coetsee, at a parade in Pretoria on 14 February 1986, as part of the SA Prisons Service's 75th anniversary celebrations. The flag was registered at the Bureau of Heraldry with Certificate number 1442 on 27 April 1984.
The colours of the badge should be the same as shown below
i.e. with silver protea flowers, silver lifebuoy, and gold edges to the book.
Arthur Radburn, 04 June 2015
Following the change of name to the
Department of Correctional Services, the Commissioner of Correctional Services registered a
flag with the South African Bureau of Heraldry on
27 March 1992, which is described as:
A rectangular green flag, proportions three by two, with
a single gold horizontal stripe one seventh the width of the flag, across
the centre, in the canton the National Flag and in the lower fly the badge
of the Department of Correctional Services.
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
and Arthur Radburn, 04 June 2015
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by
Martin
Grieve, 16 Mar 2011
The badge of the South African Prisons Service (later Correctional Services)
was registered at the South African Bureau of Heraldry under Certificate number
23/1935 dated 16 August 1960.
Source: Brownell, F.G., 1992 :Some Southern African Flags, SAVA Journal
(No. 1/92) [brl92].
Bruce Berry,17 July 2015
image sent by Bruce Berry, 17 July 2015
The Department had two National Colours, i.e. the former National Flag (1928-1994) in Colour format. They were presented by the then State President, F.W. de Klerk, in Pretoria on 27 August 1992. On 23 June 1993, the Minister of Correctional Services, Adriaan Vlok, handed them over to the DCS training college in Kroonstad. Presumably they were laid up prior to the adoption of the new national flag in April 1994.
The introduction of the National Colour by the South African Defence Force was
approved on 08 March 1988. The South African National Colour was the
National Flag with the following characteristics:
- it was manufactured from silk;
- it was fimbrated with a gold frill; and
- it had two gold cords with tassels hanging from the bottom of the cords.
A total of 128 Colours were awarded between April 1988 until December 1993.
Arthur Radburn, 07 June 2015