Appendix C: Images - new set of National Orders for South Africa

Uniforms of the Zulu Regiments, 1824

Sacred drums of the Bapedi

Crane-wing headdress of the Xhosa warrior

Traditional dress of a Tswana Chief

V-shaped breastplate and unusually shaped shield of the Southern Sotho, and ostrich feather in the headdress

Portrait of Shaka, 1824, with crane feather in his hair. (The Roots of Black South Africa, David Hammond-Tooke, p74)

20th Century headdress of a married Zulu woman

Lydenberg Heads

Woltemade Award

Order of the Southern Cross

Order for Meritorious Service

Order of Good Hope

Order of the Star of SA

Ornaments of the Southern Nguni (Note the umxhaga armband)

The Coil -
a sacred grass ring (inKatha) used by the Bhaca people

Bone waist ornaments of the Tswana, possibly 19th Century

Mapungubwe Rhinoceros

Northern Sotho ostrich plumed battle staff

Ngoma drums of the Venda

Tswana and Ndebele warriors

Cancer Bush - flower

Cancer Bush - pod

Pearl Millet

Bitter Aloe

Mopani Tree

Mopani Tree leaf

Resurrection Plant

Devils Claw

Poison Bulb

 

 

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