six different colours are on the south african flag.
how many different colours are on the south african flag?
six
section::::colours.





























at the time of its adoption, the south african flag was the only national flag in the world to comprise six colours in its primary design and without a seal and brocade. the design and colours are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. the colours themselves have no essential meaning.





























the central design of the flag, beginning at the flagpost in a "v" form and flowing into a single horizontal band to the outer edge of the fly.





























section::::symbolism.
flag of south africa
during the apartheid era, protesters would burn the (now former) south african flag in protest against the apartheid policies of the then-south african regime (the former of which the flag was closely associated with). in one example, americans opposed to apartheid burned the then-south african flag at an anti-apartheid protest in the u.s. state of massachusetts during the mid-1980s. south africans opposed to afrikaner minority rule also burned the (now former) south african flag, viewing it as a symbol of the country's afrikaner-dominated regime at the time.
flag desecration