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Post Offices RANGSKIK to REFUGE

RANGSKIK
20.08.1928 to 02.02.1931
21.08.1950 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

RANKIN'S PASS
01.09.1911 to Republic
Renamed from Zwagershoek
Area: Nylstroom
1   2C "Blank" 28 mm 03.08.1915
(Putzel)		 16.10.1917
(Aab)		  

RARALLEYNE
1934 to 15.06.1936
Area: Pretoria
NOT  RECORDED

RASHOOP
12.03.1928 to Republic
Area: Brits
1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
(Putzel)		 ??.11.1943
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   17.01.1956
(Aab)		    

RATELFONTEIN
22.06.1931 to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Bars + 2"   30 mm 1932
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1932
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   32 mm 02.08.1955
(Putzel)		    

RATELKLIP
01.04.1915 to 01.07.1946
Area: Calvinia
NOT  RECORDED

RATHFARNHAM
1915 to 14.04.1930
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Blank"   31 mm 192?
(Putzel)		    

RATOMBA (RATOMBO)
15.10.1923 to Republic
Area: Louis Trichardt
1   2C "Bars + cross"   RATOMBA 1931
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Bar"
Visser		 RATOMBO
 

Relief

 1959?
(Visser)		    

RATSEGAAI
19.08.1935 to 06.09.1943
Area: Ventersdorp
NOT  RECORDED

RAUTENBACH
01.09.1913 to 19.08.1957
Area: Uitenhage
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     28.07.1952
(Putzel)		    

RAVENMOOR
06.11.1950 to 15.01.1951
14.04.1952 to Republic
Area: East Rand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

RAVENSFELL
Union to 01.04.1912
01.11.1913 to 01.08.1920
Area: Barkly East
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     ??.06.1917
(Putzel)		    

RAWSONVILLE
Union to Republic
Area: Worcester
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
25.04.1884
(Frescura)		 Union 20.12.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bar" Heavy bar 26.03.1926
(Putzel)		 01.06.1932
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank"   26 mm ??.03.1929
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" 30 mm 20.08.1947
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 19.02.1948
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Blank" 26 mm 29.12.1955
(Aab)		    

RAWTHORPE
01.11.1911 to 01.08.1916
01.03.1917 to 01.01.1919
Renamed from Wakefield (1911)
Renamed to Umgeni Poort (1919)
Area: Mooi River
NOT  RECORDED

RAYMOND ESTATE
27.05.1929 to 31.08.1942
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Blank"   25 mm 24.02.1932
(Putzel)		    

RAYTON
Union to Republic
Area: Cullinan
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
03.04.1905
(Aab)		 Union 01.10.1943
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1957
(Visser)		    

READSDALE
01.03.1917 to 02.11.1953
Area: Seymour
NOT  RECORDED

READSDRIFT
01.09.1919 to 03.11.1930
Area: Kimberley
NOT  RECORDED

REAMORE
09.12.1940 to Union
Area: Dundee
1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 1941
(Putzel)		    

REDAN
25.05.1936 to Republic
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm 04.11.1940
(Putzel)		 09.04.1943
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Cross" 26 mm 06.02.1956
(Aab)		 17.06.1958
(Putzel)		  

REDBARN
27.06.1949 to Republic
Area: Vryburg
NOT  RECORDED

REDDERSBURG
Union to Republic
Area: South of Bloemfontein
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm

ORC removed		 30.04.1911
(Aab)		 07.06.1917
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm

ORC removed
G level with date
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"
Visser		 28 mm

S.AFRICA
above date
Z.Afrika
below date		 29.03.1915
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm

9 to 3 o'clock		 05.09.1928
(Putzel)		 04.02.1941
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank"   28 mm

10 to 2 o'clock		 24.10.1929
(Putzel)		    
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank"   28 mm

9:30 to 2:30 o'clock		 12.09.1950
(Aab)		 20.12.1957
(Putzel)		  
       
8   2C "Blank" 26 mm

9 to 3 o'clock		 195?
(Aab)		    

REDDINGSHOOP
16.03.1936 to Republic
Renamed from Wolhuterskop Station
Area: Brits
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm

Last seenj
28.06.1961
(Putzel)		 04.07.1943
(Aab)		 Republic  

REDELINGHUIS
Union to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Bars + cross"   23.06.1911
(Frescura)		 16.07.1934
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"     21.10.1940
(Putzel)		    

REDHILL (RAIL) - Natal -
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL"
 		 19.10.1910
(Aab)		    
2   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross"   04.12.1929
(Aab)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross"   26.02.1944
(Aab)		 04.08.1954
(Putzel)		  
5   PARCEL   Smaller lettering
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
6   PARCEL   Larger
(Putzel)		    

RED HILLS - Cape -
Union to 22.12.1930
Area: Aberdeen
NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmarks known

REDHOUSE (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton relief 1911
(Frescura)		    
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   18.10.1927
(Aab)		 10.01.1956
(Putzel)		  

REDOUBT
11.01.1926 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross"     29.02.1932
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Cross" Last seenj
17.08.1977
(Putzel)		 06.01.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  

REEBOKRAND
1952 to 01.02.1954
Renamed from Rhebokrand
Area: Philippolis
NOT  RECORDED

REEDPOOL STATION
01.03.1914 to 01.12.1915
Renamed from Langkuil
Renamed to Rietpoel Rail
Area: Caledon
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton ?
(Visser)		    

REFUGE
30.07.1951 to 18.02.1952
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
NOT  RECORDED