Date of Issue : 15 October 2011
Joint stamp issue between South Africa and Indonesia
South Africa and Indonesia have jointly released a stamp issue marking 300 years of the link between the two countries. The stamps were officially launched on 15 October in Cape Town .
South Africa and Indonesia have only enjoyed formal diplomatic ties since August 1994, but the link between the two countries stretches back close to three hundred years. The colonisation of Africa and Asia by European powers from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries led to the enslavement of millions of Afro-Asian peoples, and an international slave trade. This slave trade led to the migration of large numbers of Asian and African people to different parts of the world. It was one such stream of people, most of whom were political exiles or prisoners who had opposed the colonisation of their countries that came to the Cape of Good Hope.
Press Clippings
These stamps add light to Diwali worldwide
Hindustan Times : 26 October 2011
: Pradip Jain – Patna
US Postal Service says Diwlai stamp under consideration
News India Times 21 October 2011, NY – USA
: Dr Hemant Kulkarni - USA
Army Postal Service Covers – Part- 6
- P. Ramakrishnan
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