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image by Martin Grieve, 22 July 2005
Germiston is part of the Witwatersrand conurbation and is located east
of Johannesburg (East Rand). It is South Africa's sixth largest city
with 70% of the western world's gold passing through its gold refinery
and it has South Africa's largest railway junction.
The municipal flag came into use
during 1965/66 and is composed of two stripes, white and red. The red
shield from the municipal arms is found, somewhat unusually, on the top
right corner of the white stripe and comprises two ox-wagons separated
by two yellow diagonal lines symbolising the importance of the town as a
railway junction. Three gold medallions lie between the lines and at
the bottom of the flag on the red stripe and are symbolic of the
gold-mining industry, to which the town owes its origins.
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by Bruce Berry, 01 Sept 2005
The blazon of the arms granted to Germiston by Letters Patent in 1935
and registered by the South African Bureau of Heraldry on 20 February
1968 is as follows:
ARMS: Gules, within two bandlets Or between two ox wagons Argent, three
bezants
CREST: A falcon affronte rising, wings expanded
WREATH AND MANTLING: Or and Gules
SUPPORTERS: Two eland proper resting the interior hoof on an heraldic
fountain
MOTTO: SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX (The welfare of the people is the
supreme law).
With the re-organisation of South African local government in December
1994 and again in December 2000, Germiston is no longer a separate
municipality and now falls under the jurisdiction of the Ekurhuleni
Metropolitan Council. Consequently the original municipal flag is no
longer flown.
Bruce Berry, 01 Sept 2006
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