Next people are going to ask "Why did Germany change its flag?"

What a delightful suggestion by the KZfaq algorithm! As a South African I must say that your pronunciation of Afrikaans words is *chef's kiss*.

The answer's pretty simple, dont Boer us with the details.

You forgot to mention: The current SA flag was made in one week's notice to serve as a temporary flag in 1994 for the interim government, prior to the election. However, a new flag was never made to replace it, and it has remained the official flag of South Africa ever since.

Complete honesty, the dutch flag bit nevergets old.

My favorite flag symbolism is Bhutan's. The orange half represents Buddhist tradition while the yellow represents civil tradition and temporal authority, with the dragon between them to show their equal importance and evokes the strength of the sacred bond between sovereign and people. But the dragon is of course the coolest part! In Dzongkha, dragon is druk, and the country is known as Druk Yul or Dragon Country. It being white signifies the purity of inner thoughts and deeds that unite all the linguistically diverse peoples of Bhutan. The jewels held in Druk's claws represent Bhutan's wealth and the protection of its people, while the dragon's snarling mouth symbolizes Bhutanese deities' commitment to defense. Why a druk? According to traditional accounts, when the sect's founder, Tsangpa Gyare, 1st Gyalwang Drukpa, began to build Ralung Monastery, there was a violent storm. Thunder, or the "Cloud Voice," is seen as the roar of the dragon. Deciding that this was an omen, he named the monastery Drug-Ralung, adding the word "thunder dragon" to the name. The disciples were known as Drugpa, or "Those of the Thunder." I also love the celestial globe on the Brazilian flag! It reflects the sky over the city of Rio de Janeiro in November 1889 when the Republic was proclaimed. Not only that, but each star corresponds to a Brazilian Federal Unit, so the flag has to be updated every time a state is created or dissolved. When it was first adopted, it had 21 stars and was last updated in 1992 to include Amapá, Roraima, Rondônia and Tocantins for 27 stars. So there are 26 stars for the different states, and another for the Federal District (the capital Brasília). The green and yellow on the other hand come from the previous imperial flag, with green for the House of Braganza (Pedro I) and yellow for House of Habsburg (his wife).

As a black South African myself I love our current National flag, which I personally consider one of the best if not the best in the world and I can say most white South Africans love the flag and are very attached to it, I personally don’t thing the old flag is all that hateful as long as it’s being used in an educational manner, we have many great symbols in our country and for me they bring some of the most joy 🇿🇦 Great video by the way

I'm South African. Never heard it referred to as Die Seskleur.

The post-apartheid flag of South Africa has to be one of my favorite national flags as a flag nerd. It's one of the few national flags that have 5 separate colors and somehow still made it work. It was a huge improvement over what it replaced. Honestly, the old South African flag was sort of slapped together, just taking the Dutch flag from the Age of Discovery and placing the British flag with two flags of the old Boer republics on it and sticking them in the middle, symbolic of the British colonial arranged shotgun marriage of the British settlers and Boers in South Africa. Not that I'm going to ignore the elephant in the room with the fact the flag disregarded the majority of native Black South Africans that lived in the country as well. Like you said, it is the "rainbow flag" that represents South Africa as an ethnically diverse state with multiple origins, leading South African anti-apartheid activist and theologian Desmond Tutu to call a new South Africa "The Rainbow Nation."

Did you notice that in the old flag, the Union Flag is deliberately upside down, so that none of the three small flags in the middle could claim precedence?

The Union of South Africa flag was created as a compromise as many descendants of Boers found the UK flag unacceptable after the Second Boer War. The Balfour Declaration in 1926 granted South Africa legislative autonomy, opening the possibility of a new flag. British South Africans wanted the UK flag, and the majority British Natal Province threatened to secede if the UK flag was removed, thus a compromise was reached with the three flags in the middle as the result, and the Prinsenvlag was selected as a compromise because they viewed it as politically neutral since the Prinsenvlag was no longer the flag of any nation. A further element of this compromise was that the British flag would continue to fly alongside the South African flag over official buildings, but this dual arrangement ended in 1957. As you mentioned, they unsuccessfully tried to remove the mini-British flag, and even after South Africa became a republic in 1961, they still kept the flag despite the country having left the Commonwealth (South Africa would of course rejoin in 1994). I'm glad they changed it in 1994, not just because it's better representative of the people, but it looks much better aesthetically, and it truly stands out as a unique design instead of just shoving other flags in the middle. It's one of my favorite flags alongside Kiribati, Seychelles, Barbados, Albania, Nepal, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, and Brazil. Kiribati's flag is chef's kiss. The flag is the expansion of the coat of arms of the former Gilbert and Ellice Islands colonial flag, like how the flag of the US state of Maryland is just an expanded version of the banner of arms of Cecil Calvert, the 2nd Baron Baltimore. The insignia was designed by Sir Arthur Grimble in 1932. The bird on the flag is a frigate bird which represents power, poise, freedom and Kiribati cultural dance patterns. The sun rising refers to Kiribati's location astride the Equator. It has 17 rays to represent the Gilbert Islands and Banaba. While the waves are of course the Pacific Ocean!

It changed from something to be ashamed of to something to be ashamed of 💅🏻

By far my favorite video by you

Are you planning in getting married in South Africa, Hilbert? The Wedding March is an interesting choice for this video…

wow, that vertical tricolor proposal looks sick

South Africa's modern flag is such a nice design

I always look forward to your videos regarding anything Dutch, cause I love that Dutch flag gag lol 😂😂😂

i would've guessed that the Y shape was due to the cross on the union jack. so they just used half

In terms of public display of any old flag is acceptable in an educational context at museums and historical monuments.

Springbok flag from the 80’s is easily the best.

Context is everything, I think

The ANc has distroyed our country

"But not for long!" One of my favourite bits of Horrible Histories xD

Good video.

Amazing research.

This is not how we were taught the flag in school. They just told us what each of the colours represent. Nothing about the combination of other older flags. Interesting info indeed.🤔 And to answer the question about displaying the old flag, I do think it is a symbol of oppression. It should be kept inside the museum. As a child of parents who lived through Apartheid, it would honestly bring about PTSD for them.

Hilbert good luck in finding the current flag of South Africa that has an orange/red combination! Flag manufacturers don't seem to understand as with the shade of blue in the flag of Tanzania!

great video

Imagine going to school back then and had to draw the flag😂😂

Hey man previously watched your video on Afrikaans and as a kullid I was impressed. Wanted to find out if it would be possible for you to do a video on the history of my tribe?

Because it had to, it represented apartheid, pain and suffering for me.🇿🇦 This one represents unity

6:12 loved that Horrible histories reference😂

After anc gets firced iut, will there be a new flag once again?

6:12 "But not for long" Horrible Histories reference spoted

Awesome thanks.

thanks for the info, am surprised the ANC flag is in there and the opposition let it slide

Hey Hilbert! Does any other country flag have (be dominated by) a political party flag like this ? Thanks

Thanks for the education

Interesting is that Transvaal was never known as "die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek" it was "de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek" the Union happened in 1910, when the British Cape colony, British Natal, Oranje Vrystaat and ZAR was united to form the South African Republic. The Oranje Vrystaat and ZAR was never Afrikaans, they were Dutch. Afrikaans only became official in 1925.

🤣🤣🤣 Afrikaans people going ham in the comments, such a sensitive lot. This was a flag transition video with no hate intended by the content creator yet I see anguish comments

Thank you for doing video's about my country, our history and my language. 😊I have never yet been insulted or gotten irritable watching your videos where you speak Afrikaans, if I didn't know better I would have thought you a local. 😅 Your pronounciation is impeccable, I appreciate the research you always seem to do with the content, and enjoy the obvious interest you have for South African history and Afrikaans. I've said this in a previous comment on a video you did about Afrikaans, "knap gedaan".

As an afrikaaner who often has to suffer the ignorance of people who can't pronounce things right, I just have to say, absolute mad respect to you for going through the trouble of learning the correct pronunciation and getting it on point. Also thank you for all the effort you put into this, despite being afrikaans my parents gave me a very english upbringing, and now that I'm a young adult I realized how little the schools taught about my own and other peoples culture, so now I'm scavenging on the internet for the history of my people and my country.

wonderful video, could you make one on the flags of the Boer republics?

It's a mystery. How could it be that they changed the flag?

Ngl I like the current one more than the old one!

I am a South African, I love my country and my flag too.

Heel persoonlijk, ervaar ik een toenemende ergernis bij de onzinnige trend, om overal een muziekje onder te gooien. Helemaal wanneer het veel te groots/heftig (afleidend) is, dat moet functioneren als een simpel achtergrondmuziekje. Ik denk niet dat Mendelssohn deze functie in gedachten had, bij het schrijven van de Wedding March. Verder louter lof voor jouw video's!! Zij hebben überhaupt geen achtergrondmuziek nodig.

Thaught I heard the National F1 anthem for a moment 🇳🇱

What about the south asian origin population in South Africa? Don't they deserve some recognition?

4:12 why is the African National Congress flag in the wrong color order? Dankje.

I dont think this one needs much of an explanation

I wonder why. This was a bit of a bloody obvious one

Ima saffer born in the eighties and this is a cool video about our flags.

Please do why France flag change its color?

🤍🙌🏾 This is beautiful work. Love this video and thank you for taking time to talk about my country, I learnt a great deal.

ANC Nananananana Black:loadshedding Green:our land Yellow:joburg/city of gold

How are we supposed to teach our youth of the past when we destroy the evidence of our lands history?

Have you ever tried to draw this new thing?? Impossible.....😢

Is the 68/69 I think sugestion not the basic idea of the current Dorp Orania flag?

At some points in the video. They used Botswana 🇧🇼 flag as the background

Everything has to change in South Africa. Everything must be destroyed. 😢

The old South African flag also included the pre-Northern Ireland Union Jack

i think that the castle of good hope should fly all the flags together to remind south africans of the periods and circumstances we have overcome

Hello Hilbert. Who said all those old flags were a Boer? This flag is like a flag nerd's dream. It is sort of pretty too, or am I just too much of a flag nerd myself?

2:18 - Where my soutpiele at? 💪🏻

But how ANC got their flag

I'm glad South Africa changed its flag. The old one is unoriginal and just doesn't look as good. The new one is easily one of the most aesthetically pleasing flags in the world and is a lot better.

interesting

South African here, love your vibeos keep it up.

In my opinion if the ANC is out of power because their colours is also in the flag the flag must change

Welcome to fun with flags!! With Sheldon cooper

Better question: what happens if you wave the Old South African flag

06:12 Horrible Histories deserves a like matter what

The new flag is much nicer than the old one

any "hidden" flags are coincidences, our flag wasnt made to remind us of the horrific past, but to bring us together, thats why theres a "Y" in the flag, it signals the coming together of us, and is not a reference to the british colonies who hurt our people

F1 fans hearing the duch national anthem 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

A famous South African singer got locked up when he showed the old flag in public

Fun fact the old flag triggers South Africans to the point where it was out lawd to be shown in public

No one as mentioned about very old flag in 1909 of South Africa that look like more Old Canadian flag. and What if Cape Independence separate by language of mix Coloureds community as non White as Afrikaans.

Our beloved flag turns 30 tomorrow.

All i can say is we have a very distinct history apart from all nations 💯

But we were asked which colours we wanted on the flag. Anc people added theirs, IFP people added thers Afrikaaners too. Who ever made this flag tried to accommodate everyone. If you know Inkatha freedom party all these colours reflect them Also ANC Thats time everyone was scrutinizing. No one would have opnly accept the Dutch flag

Being south african is low-key a flex😂

Cool video nicely informative, but I logged off when that racists flag showed up (you used it correctly tho: for educational purposes 👏 👏)

Both are aesthetic; but the Vierkleur wins. KENT GIY DAT VOLK VOL HELDENMOED

Fun with Flags!!!

Just knew that the comments would be filled with the 'verkramptes'.

the colours on the south African flag represent 3 political parties that will forever rule in SA Black & yellow = ANC RED = EFF BLUE = DA the green Y part represent us the people, the voters , the citizens

Lived here my whole life & didn’t know the flag had a nick name No wonder y

"Why did it change" lmfao

It got thrown out because of what it is and what it represents

I think that the current SA flag is really well-designed. IMHO, in a historical context like the castle, it is ok to display the historical flags. I'd have a similar attitude to the display of CSA flags in the United States. In a museum or battlefield, yes. Otherwise, no. However, I'm not a South African and don't know if the apartheid flag would have the same meaning and viseral response as the Nazi flag would in modern-day Germany. In that case, maybe it's best not to fly it outside.

I love this video, manly because I'm South african

I love the current South African flag. It's one of those rare situations where some flags are combined and it creates a really good flag. The other example is of course the UK flag. I don't think the old South Africa flag deserves the hate it gets. It served the purpose it was designed for. Does the ANC think the Union of South Africa shouldn't have had a flag? The row of flags at the castle were awesome.

The new South African flag is one of the more meaningful flags in the world. The ultimate meaning is unification of Black and White people.

U should do an episode on why the American flag changed!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

yay! south africa get some attention 🙌🏻

Yep, the modern South African flag is much better than the previous ones. Looks nicer.

I live in South Africa And don't move here it's really bad I mean really loadshedding, corruption ext

6:05 this is my new favorite insult😂