Albany (South Africa)
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ALBANY DIVISIONAL COUNCIL
Province: Eastern Cape (until 1994 Cape Province)
Incorporated into: Cacadu
Official blazon
(af)
- Wapen: In silwer, 'n rooi kruis en op 'n gekanteelde skildhoof van blou 'n gestingelde en geblaarde dissel vergesel regs van 'n uitgerukte prei en links van 'n gestingelde klawerblad, alles goud.
- Helmteken: 'n Oosterse kroon met 'n uitkomende herkruiste kruis met spits voet voor twee skuinsgekruiste pyle, alles van goud.
- Wrong en dekklede: Silwer en blou.
- Skildhouers: Regs 'n luiperd van natuurlike kleur, op die skouer met 'n rooi skulp belaai, en links 'n koedoe, op die skouer met 'n gestingelde en geblaarde proteablom belaai, albei van natuurlike kleur.
- Spesiale kompartement: 'n Voorstelling van die suurveld van die Albanygebied.
- Wapenspreuk: TAKE ROOT OR DIE
(en)
- Arms: Argent, a cross Gules, on a chief embattled Azure a thistle slipped and leaved between dexter a leek eradicated and sinister a leaf of shamrock slipped, Or.
- Crest: Issuant from an Eastern crown a cross crosslet fitchy in front on two arrows in saltire Or.
- Wreath and mantling: Argent and Azure.
- Supporters: Dexter a leopard proper charged on the shoulder with an escallop Gules and sinister a kudu charged on the shoulder with a protea flower slipped and leaved proper.
- Special compartment: A representation of the sourveld of the Albany area.
- Motto: TAKE ROOT OR DIE
Origin/meaning
Arms granted on April 4, 1976.
The main features alludes to the fact that this was the place where most of the British settlers who went to South Africa in 1820 settled. Also the motto refers to this fact.
The Supporters are from the Local Fauna.Literature:
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