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Post Offices SAAIBULT to SAKRIVIER

SAAIBULT
07.06.1926 to Republic
Area: Senekal
1   2C "Blank"   18.06.1934
(Aab)		 29.03.1935
(Putzel)		  

SAALBERG
1926 to 30.11.1942
Area: Murraysburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

SAALSKOP
08.10.1934 to Republic
Area: Republic
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

SAAMTREK
01.07.1946 to 10.08.1953
Renamed to Endicott
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   02.10.194?
(Visser)		    

SAAMWERK
06.089.1923 to 19.01.1959
Area: Coligny
1   2C "Blank"
Putzel		  
(Putzel)		    

SABALELE
03.10.1950 to Republic
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

SABIE
Union to Republic

1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
20.08.1903
(Aab)		 Union 31.07.1922
(Aab)		  
2   2C "TRANSVAAL"  SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date

There seems to
 be an attempt to
 remove the
 inner markings		 14.04.1912
(Aab)		    
3   2C "TRANSVAAL"  First seen
24.06.1909
(Putzel)		 Union 14.09.1920
(Aab)		  
4   2C "TRANSVAAL"    No markings on sides 1932
(Putzel)		    
5   1C "Blank"    Skeleton 1932
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Bars + cross"  Bars end below date

Last seen
01.02.1978
(Putzel)		 07.06.1944
(Aab)		  Republic  
7   2C "Bars + cross"  Bars end level with date

Last seen
11.08.1978
(Putzel)		 03.09.1957
(Aab)		  Republic  
8   2C "Bar"    Type 3 relief 1959
(Visser)		    
9   PARCEL    
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

SACHSENWALD
Union to 01.03.1919
Renamed to Parklands
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"  First seen
23.12.1907
(Putzel)
 		 Union 02.02.1911
(Aab)		  

SACRED HEART
02.08.1948 to 01.01.1951
Area: Umkomaas
NOT  RECORDED

SACSONIA
1942 to Republic
Area: Brandfort
NOT  RECORDED

ST. ALBANS
15.01.1923 to Republic
Renamed from Gedultz River
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "Blank"  New discovery ??.02.1934
(Aab)		    

ST. ANDREWS STREET
12.06.1922 to 04.08.1924
(This was the Non European office)
Area: Bloemfontein
1   2C "BLOEMFONTEIN"      06.07.1923
(Putzel)		 16.05.1924
(Aab)		  
       

ST. AUGUSTINES
Union to Republic
Area: Dundee
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
15.08.1903
(Putzel)		 Union ??.??.1914
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"  28 mm
(Aab)		 195?
(Putzel)		  

ST. CUTHBERTS
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
04.11.1899
(Frescura)		 Union 15.10.1923
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bar" 
Visser		  
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"    26 mm
Last seen
19.06.1978
(Putzel)		 195?
(Putzel)		  Republic  

ST. EDMONDS
10.05.1926 to 15.04.1935
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   1935
(Visser)		    

ST. FAITHS (MISSION)
Union to Republic
Area: Ixopo
1   2C "NATAL" First seen:
18.11.1903
(Aab)		 Union 15.12.1913
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1931
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Bar"
Visser		   13.07.1940
(Visser)		    

ST. GEORGES STRAND
16.03.1925 to 01.03.1954
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "Blank" 
Visser		   1925
(Visser)		 1947
(Visser)		  

ST. GEORGES STREET
Union to 01.10.1914
Area: CapeTown
1   1C "CAPE TOWN"
http://www.michael-hamilton.com 		First seen:
22.03.1898
(Frescura)		 Union 12.07.1911
(Putzel)		  
2   SQC "CAPE TOWN" First seen:
03.08.1898
(Frescura)		 Union 23.02.1914
(Frescura)		  
3 "CAPE TOWN" 2C "S.AFRICA"   14.03.1914
(Aab)		    

ST. HELENA BAY (ST. HELENABAAI)
Union to 1943
01.07.1946 to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   1C "BAY"
( John Lund)		 Name top and bottom

First seen:
16.05.1889
(Putzel)		 Union 07.02.1944
(Frescura)		  
       
2   2C     ST.HELENABAAI/
ST HELENA BAY		 1949
(Visser)		    
3   1C "54"
Visser		 Skeleton 1954
(Visser)		    

ST. HELENAFONTEIN
Union to 06.09.1943
Area: West Coast
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
06.04.1901
(Frescura)		 Union 02.11.1932
(Putzel)		  

ST. JAMES
12.07.1937 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross"      1941
(Putzel)		 10.05.1953
(Putzel)		  

ST. LUCIA (ESTUARY)
24.09.1928 to 09.03.1936
23.03.1936 to Republic
Renamed to Nyalazi River (1936)
Area: Zululand
1   2C "Bars + cross"     
(Putzel)		    
2 "ESTUARY"  2C "Bars + cross"    29.11.1954
(Putzel)		 1957
(Putzel)		  

ST. LUKES
Union to Republic
Area: East London
1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
04.10.1897
(Putzel)		 Union 08.07.1918
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"     
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

ST. MARKS
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
22.09.1901		 Union 10.05.1915  
2   2C "Bars + cross"    Short T in ST.
30 mm		 09.02.1917
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross"    Normal T in ST.
30 mm
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross"  26 mm 30.09.1946
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
5   1C "Blank" 
(Visser)		   04.03.1948
(Visser)		    

ST. MATTHEWS
Union to Republic
Area: Kingwilliamstown
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
04.06.1896
(Frescura)		 Union 07.03.1923
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank?" Skeleton
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   21.05.1934
(Aab)		 13.08.1953
(Aab)		  

ST. MICHAELS
17.08.1925 to 12.08.1940
Renamed to Ndonyane
Area: Umzinto
1   2C "Blank"   26.06.1931
(Aab)		 20.12.1939
(Putzel)		  

ST. MICHAELS ON SEA
28.01.1935 to Republic
Renamed from Umhlangeni Mouth
Area: Port Shepstone
1   2C "Blank" Last seen
24.04.1978
(Putzel)		 12.09.1951
(Aab)		 Republic  

ST. PAULS
21.11.1927 to 15.07.1935
Area: Machadodorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"    26 mm
(Putzel)		    

ST. SCHOLASTICA
28.02.1949 to 15.06.1953
Area: Soekmekaar
NOT  RECORDED

ST. WINIFREDS
17.06.1935 to 24.06.1952
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank" 
Chris vd Spuy		 29 mm 1935
(Chris
vd Spuy)		 24.02.1937
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank" 
Visser		 skeleton 25.08.1950
(Visser)		    

SAKHILE
11.01.1960 to Republic
Area: Standerton
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

SAKRIVIER STATION (STASIE)
10.02.1930 to Republic
Renamed from Zak River Rail
Area: Calvinia
1   2C "Blank"  29 mm
STASIE		 07.02.1944
(Putzel)		 ??.10.1947
(Aab)		  
1   2C "Blank"    29 mm 20.07.1951
(Putzel)