Capital

Pretoria

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1994

Designer

Frederick Brownell

South Africa

Colors and meaning

• Black #000000

  Black South Africans

• Gold #FFB612

  Mineral wealth

• Green #007A4D

  The land's fertility

• White #FFFFFF

  White South Africans, together with the other colors symbolizing unity

• Red #DE3831

  Sacrifices made during the struggle against apartheid

• Blue #002395

  The open skies

Symbolism and history

A horizontal Y shape converges the colors of the old Boer republics and the African National Congress into one flag, deliberately designed to represent convergence and unity as the country moved from apartheid to democracy in 1994.

No documented visual overlap

South Africa’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Africa, for browsing:

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana

Further reading: Flag of South Africa on Wikipedia