Boer movement flags (South Africa)

Last modified: 1997-09-03 by alessio bragadini
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In South Africa there is a political movement (or party) called "Afrikaner Volksfront" (Popular Front), which tries to set up an independent Boer state. They use a flag very similar to Transvaal's "Vierkleur", but the red stripe replaced with an orange one. This flag is called "Vryheidsvlag" (freedom flag).

The "Volksrepubliek Werkgroep" made a proposal for a - let's say - constitution of this imagines state. In article 19.16.3 it is written:

"Die huidige vryheidsvlag (groen en oranje, blanje, blou) moet onder die Afrikaner gevestig word, ..."

i.e. "Today's freedom flag (green and orange, white, blue) must be tightened by the Afrikaaner." But there was also a request to me by one who wished to know, who used the flag with "a yellow, maybe orange, stripe". So it seems that there are two flags: an older one with a yellow and a newer one with an orange stripe. Or maybe the orange is because of the former ZA national flag.
carsten linke 13-JUN-1996

As far as I am aware this is new, although the design has been popular amongst independent-minded Afrikaners for a good while now.

The "Vryheidsvlag" mentioned has been registered with the SA Bureau of Heraldry by the Afrikaner Volksfront as indicated in SAVA Newsletter 14/95 of December 1995.
bruce berry 14-JUN-1996

The flag of the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging). in the centre has the symbol of three digits "7", according to the AWB.
marius swart 3-OCT-1995