Fred Brownell, designer of democratic SA flag, passed away at his home in Pretoria on Friday evening at the age of 79.
“The name of Fred Brownell is one that is synonymous with the journey taken by this fledgling democracy in the role he played in designing and producing the flag of post-democratic South Africa,” Arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa said in a statement on Sunday evening.
“It was just an idea about how we could represent coming together ... streams flowing into one another, whether cultural, linguistic or whatever ... a unifying of people’s cultures, something that could bring the people of South Africa together.”
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