Image: Facebook - Philatelic Federation of South AfricaStamp collectors from some 40 countries across the world are due to showcase their collections at the exhibition.
Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Philly Mapulane, says a limited edition exhibition stamp that the South African Post Office staff have designed will be unveiled during the exhibition.. So basically, to sort of take us through memory lane of where we come from as a country to where we are as a democracy from before 1994, from the time of colonialism, from the time of apartheid, the struggle against apartheid and all of that.
Mapulane says this year’s theme has particular significance for South Africa socially and politically and is a continuation of the celebration of the country’s reintegration into the global community of democratic nations.years been central not only in the development of philatelic material but also in making it possible to keep in touch with the world.