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Post Offices MAGALAKWIN to MAIZEFIELD

MAGALAKWIN
01.08.1911 to 01.07.1916
1918 to 03.06.1922
Area: Near Potgietersrust
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   ??.08.1911
(Visser)		    

MAGALIESBURG
Union to Republic
Area: Krugersdorp
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
11.12.1907
(Aab)		 Union 13.10.1919
(Aab)		  
2   2C-D "Blank"   28 mm 03.11.1924
(Putzel)		    
3   2C-D "Bar"     12.10.1931
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"   1934
(Putzel)		 03.05.1935
(Aab)		  
5   2C-D "Blank" 30 mm 1954
(Aab)		 03.08.1955
(Putzel)		  

MAGATOSHOEK
19.09.1927 to 01.04.1940
Area: Rustenburg
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    

MAGIST
1921 to1923
Area: Zululand
NOT  RECORDED

MAGNESITE
12.11.1926 to 06.06.1938
Area: Nelspruit
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    

MAGNET HEIGHTS (MAGNEETSHOOGTE)
01.09.1931 to 1958
Renamed from Braam River
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Bar"   26 mm
Magnet Heights		 05.12.1948
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Magneetshoogte
(Aab)		 04.07.1957
(Putzel)		  

MAGOEBASKLOOF
27.02.1948 to Republic
Area: Between Pietersburg and Tzaneen
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm

Last seen
12.09.1988
(Putzel)		 12.12.1951
(Aab)		 Republic  

MAGOGONG
08.12.1947 to Republic
Area: Pokwani
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm
(Aab)		 07.01.1957
(Putzel)		  

MAGOZASTAD
26.09.1949 to 30.07.1951
Area: Groot Marico
NOT  RECORDED

MAGUDU
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Magut
Area: Pongola
1   2C "Bar + cross" New discovery 18.10.195?
(Putzel)		    

MAGUSHENI
1953 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Blank" New discovery 10.02.1956
(Aab)		    

MAGUT
1921 to 1953
Renamed to Magudu
Area: Pongola
1   2C "Bar"   26 mm 1927
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Bar + cross"   26 mm 01.03.1936
(Putzel)		    

MAGWADA
02.09.1925 to 29.07.1929
Area: Louis Trichardt
NOT  RECORDED

MAHANBA
Swaziland using South African stamps up to 2 January 1933
See Swaziland

MAHASHINI
29.07.1929 to 08.06.1959
Area: Mtubatuba
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1942
(Visser)		 12.04.1958
(Putzel)		  

MAHEMSKUIL
Union to 1915
Area: Vredefort
1   BONC "23" Allocated 1907 Union    

MAHEMSVLEI
27.01.1952 to Republic
Area: Lichtenburg
1   2C "Blank"   28 mm 1959
(Putzel)		    

MAHLABATINI
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   1C "NATAL" First seen
03.08.1901
(Putzel)		 Union 1918
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton ??.12.1938
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"
Visser		 29 mm 30.05.1939
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank"   28 mm 12.12.1951
(Putzel)		    

MAHLANGASI
22.11.1926 to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   2C "Blank"   25 mm 13.07.1952
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"   28 mm 195?
(Putzel)		    

MAIDSTONE (RAIL)
28.07.1924 to Republic
Area: Tongaat
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 29.05.1935
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank" 25 mm

Last seen
29.08.1978
(Putzel)		 1945
(Visser)		 Republic  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 06.01.1953
(Visser)		    

MAIN
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date

Last seen
02.02.1978
(Putzel)		 10.01.1917
(Putzel)		 Republic  

MAIN ROAD WYNBERG
18.07.1927 to 09.08.1935
Renamed to Hoofweg, Wynberg
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "WYNBERG, CAPE"     09.08.1935
(Putzel)		    

MAIN STREET JOHANNESBURG
01.12.1911 to 01.10.1914
Renamed from Fraser Street
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   20.05.1912
(Putzel)		 23.09.1913
(Aab)		  
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 23.05.1914
(Aab)		 1914
(Putzel)		  
3   PARCEL   Main Street
Johannesburg		      

MAIN STREET PAARL
05.10.1936 to 08.03.1936
07.06.1937 to 03.06.1953
Renamed from Noorder Paarl (1937)
1   2C "PAARL" 30 mm 13.01.1943
(Aab)		 03.06.1953
(Aab)		  
2   2C "PAARL" 26 mm 09.05.1947
(Putzel)		    

MAIN STREET PORT ELIZABETH (HOOFSTRAAT)
08.11.1937 to 06.12.1954
Renamed to Donkin Hill
1   2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   Bilingual
26 mm		 1946
(Putzel)		    
2 "PE" 1C "Blank" Skeleton
MAIN STREET PE		 16.02.1948
(Aab)		    
3 "PE" 1C "Blank" Skeleton
MAIN ST PE		 14.01.1949
(Aab)		    
4   2C "1" Bilingual
28 mm		 1949
(Aab)		 16.10.1953(Putzel)  
5   1C "1954" Skeleton
P.E.
above date		 10.11.1954
(Aab)		    
6   2C "1"   Bilingual
28 mm		 1946
(Visser)		 1947
(Visser)		  
7   2C "2"   Bilingual
28 mm		 (Putzel)    
8   2C "3"   Bilingual
28 mm		 1947
(Visser)		    
9   2C "4"   Bilingual
28 mm		 1949
(Visser)		    
10   2C "5"   Bilingual
28 mm		 1949
(Visser)		    
11   PARCEL    
(Visser)		    

MAITLAND
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
20.02.1903
(Frescura)

Name: 10 to 2 o'clock		 Union 14.11.1927
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen
 23.09.1909
(Frescura)

Name: 9 to 3 o'clock		 Union 07.05.1912
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 15.06.1922
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Bar"
Ian Paterson		 27 mm 12.10.1922
(Ian
Paterson)		 13.10.1929
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank" 25 mm 21.05.1930
(Aab)		 23.09.1930
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Bar" 29 mm
Long solid bar		 1931
(Putzel)		 04.05.1931
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bar" 29 mm 05.02.1934
(Aab)		 10.06.1935
(Putzel)		  
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1933
(Putzel)		    
9   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 28.11.1938
(Putzel)		    
10   2C "Blank" 29 mm 17.02.1943
(Aab)		 13.03.1943
(Putzel)		  
11   2C "Blank"   28 mm 27.03.1944
(Putzel)		    
12   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 15.05.1925
(Visser)		    
13   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Narrow M		 20.06.1951
(Aab)		 02.06.1959
(Putzel)		  
14   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Wide M		 08.07.1953
(Aab)		 09.10.1956
(Putzel)		  
15   PARCEL            

MAITLAND DEPOT
1955 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 12.03.1954
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank" Last seen
24.04.1964
(Putzel)		 12.11.1954
(Putzel)		 Republic  

MAITLAND EAST
07.06.1926 to 04.02.1952
Renamed to Woltemade
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "?"
Visser		 27 mm 12.12.1927
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Bars + cross"   31 mm 29.05.1934
(Putzel)		    
3 "/OOS" 2C "Blank"   29 mm
Bilingual		 08.01.1943
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1947
(Visser)		    

MAITLANDFIELD
Union to 1915
Area: Ixopo
NOT  RECORDED
Natal postmark known

MAIZEFIELD (RAIL)
01.02.1917 to Republic
Area: Bethal
1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 1921
(Putzel)		 1934
(Putzel)