TRANSKEI (Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA)

4c-16c: this 1984 definitive series was from the short-lived autonomous homeland of Transkei, now part of the Republic of South Africa, and shows music and cultural life, dancers, stick fighting and animal husbandry.
 

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

Standard: This sheetlet was issued in 2009 and shows artwork displayed in South Africa's constitutional court.  The themes are varied and modern, also spectacularly colorful.

Rep. SOUTH AFRICA

B4: this spectacular issue features African species of the family Meropidae: bee eaters.

Rep. South Africa

Standard rate: this 2004 peace issue shows South Africans celebrating cultural diversity

SOUTH AFRICA

Intl Rate: Two values from a birds issue featuring Sunbirds, a unique family of nectar-sipping birds.

REP. of SOUTH AFRICA

Intl. Airmail: two values from a set featuring local sunbirds, a nectar feeding group of birds found only in Africa

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

Standard: this set features ancient artifacts and cultural objects found in S. African excavations

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

R1.40: this joint issue of SA and Botswana celebrates the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, and shows a pair of Gemsbok

Rep. SOUTH AFRICA

R6: this is one of five values from a birds issue, and features the Green Twinspot

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

R2.30: this 2000 flora issue features the flower of a native succulent

REP. of SOUTH AFRICA

R6, Intl. Letter Rate: two recent bird issues show the Knysna Turaco and the Plain-backed Sunbird

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

R1.30, R1.50: two values from a local legends set, depicting the "Rain Bull" and the mysterious "Treasure of the Grosvenor"

SOUTH AFRICA / Afrique du Sud

Standard rate: the Lesser Flamingo feeds on micro-organisms in soda lakes across E. and southern Africa; in S. Africa the species can be seen in the St. Lucia Wetlands Park, Kwazulu Natal

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

R5.75: this round foil stamp was issued for the World Cup 2010; each of the Southern African countries' flags were featured in the set: seen here is Zimbabwe

SOUTH AFRICA / Afrique du Sud

Africa airmail: this lovely fauna issue shows the Serval, a furtive savannah species

SOUTH AFRICA / Afrique du Sud

R6: These airmail stamps are from a set of 5 featuring local birds, these show the Knysna Tauraco and the Cape Parrot

SOUTH AFRICA / Afrique du Sud

Two recent intl rate bird stamps show the White-bellied Sunbird and the Black Oystercatcher

Rep. of SOUTH AFRICA

85c: this brightly colored flora issue from 1993 shows some of the endemic succulent plants and flowers from the Namaqualand region

SOUTH AFRICA

Standard Rate: two of ten stamps from a birds sheetlet, featured here are the Saddlebill stork and the Water Dikkop or Thick-Knee

SOUTH AFRICA / Afrique du Sud

R20: this high value 1997 stamp shows the African Fish Eagle, a celebrated denizen of lakes and rivers in east and southern Africa