Banner o Sooth Africae
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current banner o the Republic o Sooth Africae wis adoptit on 27 Aprile 1994, at the beginnin o the 1994 general election, tae replace the banner that haed been uised syne 1928. The new naitional banner, designed bi State Herald Frederick Brownell, wis chosen tae represent the new democracy.
The banner haes horizontal bands o reid (on the tap) an blue (on the bottom), o equal width, separatit bi a central green baund which splits intae a horizontal "Y" shape, the airms o which end at the corners o the hoist side (an follae the flag's diagonals). The Y embraces a black isosceles triangle frae which the airms are separatit bi nairae yellae baunds; the reid an blue baunds are separatit frae the green baund an its airms bi nairae white stripes. The stripes at the flee end are in the 5:1:3:1:5 ratio.
In blazons (a vexillological description uisin flag terminology), the Sooth African flag is describit as "per pall fesswise gules, sable and azure, a fesswise pall vert fimbriated argent, Or an argent."