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The Department of Correctional Services/Department van Korrektiewe Dienste
is the government ministry responsible for managing South Africa's prisons.
As with the police service and armed forces, this department has its own
flag as submitted by Paige.
Bruce Berry, 2 Mar 1998
Commissioner of Correctional Services (formerly Prison Services): granted
27 Mar 1992
Description: 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
Department of Corrective Services: granted 12 Jan 1996
Description: 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
Your illustration of South Africa's Correctional Services flag correctly
shows the new national flag in the upper hoist quarter. However, like most
of the service flags, it was devised under the old regime, and originally
had the 1927 Union Flag in the quarter.
Mike Oettle, 3 Feb 2002
Commissioner of Prisons (now Correctional Services): granted 27 Apr
1984
Description: 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 South African Prisons Service.
Source: Data
of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations.
Mark Sensen, 19 May 2002
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