New passports embossed with the old apartheid-era coat of arms are still being issued by the department of home affairs, six years after South Africa introduced its new coat of arms. Wednesday ...

During the ceremony — which commemorates the South Africans who perished in World War I — a new South African coat of arms will be unveiled at the South African memorial on the site.

In 2000, President Thabo Mbeki’s office approached the Rock Art Research Institute because they wanted an indigenous rock art image to grace the coat of arms of the new South Africa.

The panel contains the image chosen for South Africa's national coat of arms. The exhibition also features a new Africa: Rock Art - How South Africa's Coat of Arms Got to Feature an Ancient SAN ...