Having a passport of two different countries (not by choice, to be honest, but not sorry about the fact either), I offer two different collages:

German and South African

The Black, Red and Gold of Germany.

The rainbow colours of South Africa.

When it was time to replace the old South African flag with a new one, many designs were suggested, a number of them were presented in various newspapers, amongst them the one that was adopted in the end. And then the discussions started and never stopped. The mocking was sometimes relentless. The design was likened to a Y-front of an old-fashioned man’s underpants. If I remember correctly, Nelson Mandela himself put his foot down and declared that there were many much more important issues. He proposed that the design was accepted for the time being and if at a later stage the people wanted to change it, they could do so. I think most South Africans knew that this would probably not happen but it helped to end a discussion that was going round in circles.

Today we belief that the Y stands for the convergence into one unified nation, the black triangle represents the people, the white stands for peace, green for the land and blue for the two oceans embracing the land, gold stands for the wealth of the country and red for the blood that was spilled to create this rainbow nation.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colours of My Flags