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Post Offices TAAIBOSCH to TBOOP

TAAIBOSCH (RAIL)
Union to 30.10.1944
Area: De Aar
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
02.03.1898
(Frescura)		 Union 01.07.1933
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank" CGH
removed		 10.05.1935
(Visser)		 03.11.19336
(Visser)		  

TAAIBOS(CH)SPRUIT
1912 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   1923
(Putzel)		 11.03.1925
(Aab)		  

TABAMHLOPE
Union to 1933?
1939 to 1952
Renamed to Ntambamhlope
Area: Estcourt
1   2C "NATAL"  First seen
19.05.1902
(Putzel)		 Union 16.05.1913
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   on small war effort
(Putzel)		    

TABANKULU
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
29.01.1895
(Aab)		 Union 20.11.1910
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"    15.12.1911
(Aab)		 13.01.1922
(Frescura)		  
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm  03.08.1931
(Putzel)		 25.07.1938
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank" 30 mm  15.04.1944
(Aab)		 04.10.1944
(Putzel)		  

TABASE
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   BONC "916" Frst seen:
 21.06.1896
(Frescura)		 Union 06.10.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "CGH" First seen:
21.06.1896
(Frescura)		 Union 1934
(Visser)		  
       
3   2C "Bars + cross"      04.11.1954
(Putzel)		    

TABLE MOUNTAIN
October 1929 to Republic
Area: Special postmark applied to mail posted on the mountain and postmarked at GPO Cape Town

1   2C "CAPE TOWN"    18.12.1929
(Putzel)		 22.02.1944
(Aab)		  

TADCASTER
12.09.1938 to Republic
Area: Jan Kempdorp
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm

Last seen
09.03.1973
(Putzel)		  29.05.1942
(Aab)		 Republic  

TAFAMASI
Union to Republic
Area: Verulam
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm  04.03.1954
(Putzel)		    

TAFELBERG (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Middelburg Cape
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
21.07.1885
(Frescura)		 Union 02.05.1925
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm  10.05.1928
(Putzel)		    

TAFELKOP
Union to Republic
Area: Frankfort, OFS
1 "S.O." 2C "Blank"   O.R.C removed 24.07.1913
(Putzel)
(Putzel)		  

TAFENI
1950 to Republic
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

TAKAZIDRIF(T)
21.07.1947 to Republic
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

TALANA (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Dundee
1   2C "NATAL" First seen
13.01.1906
(aab)		 Union 1911
(Visser		  
2 "/STA." 2C "Blank"     16.06.1955
(Putzel)		    

TALENI
1952 to Republic
Renamed from Tarleni
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

TALSEN
Union to 25.10.1954
Area: Boshof
1   2C "S.AFRICA"  
(Putzel)		 01.02.1945
(Visser)		  

TAMACHA
Union to 03.08.1959
Renamed to Tamacha
Area: Kingwilliamstown
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
 16.09.1902
(Frescura)		 Union 08.12.191?
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"     1955
(Putzel)		    

TAMARA
03.08.1959 to Republic
Renamed from Tamacha
Area: Kingwilliamstown
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

TAMBOERSFONTEIN
Union to 01.07.1910
24.05.1926 to 20.06.1927
Area: Fraserburg
NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

TAMBOERSKLOOF
28.12.1925 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "CAPETOWN.
KAAPSTAD"		   Dot separator

31 mm 		09.03.1937
(Aab)		 13.07.1942
(Putzel)		  
       
2   2C "CAPETOWN/
KAAPSTAD"		 / separator

25 mm		 25.05.1946
(Aab)		 01.12.1949
(Aab)		  

TAMBOOTIE
06.12.1920 to 17.03.1941
08.06.1942 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
NOT  RECORDED

TAMPASFONTEIN
Union to 25.07.1955
Area: Bethulie
1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser		   31.01.193?
(Visser)		    

TAMPOSSTAD
1912 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   20.07.1942
(Visser)		    

TANDANANI
22.06.1959 to Republic
Area: Zululand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

TARKASTAD
Union to Republic
Area: Cradock
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
11.03.1901
(Frescura)

Smaller typeface		 Union 23.09.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
13.12.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 26.08.1912
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		   25.08.1912
(Visser)		    
4   2C "S.AFRICA"   20.05.1914
(Aab)		 21.12.1923
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank" 28 mm

T up to date		 14.12.1925
(Aab)		 12.11.1931
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank" S.AFRICA
removed		 04.12.1936
(Visser)		    
7   2C "Blank" 29 mm

T above date		 1947
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1947
(Visser)		 1952
(Putzel)		  

TARLENI
15.11.1937 to 1952
Renamed to Taleni
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED

TARLTON
1910 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   06.04.1912
(Aab)		 1942
(Putzel)		  

TATAFALAZA
24.04.1933 to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   2C "Bar"     21.10.1955
(Putzel)		    

TAUNG(S)
Union to Republic
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
??.??.1900
(Frescura)		 Union 21.12.1910
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"     14.01.1911    
3   2C "Bars + cross"   17.09.1911
(Aab)		 01.04.1914
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bar"    
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Bars + cross" 31 mm
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    
7   1C "Blank?"   Skeleton 1949
(Putzel)		    

TAUNG(S) STATION (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Taungs
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
16.11.1895
(Frescura)		 Union 11.03.1914
(Aab)		  
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"
Visser		 2 02.08.1916
(Visser)		    
3   1C "Bar"   25 mm
NB reversed N		 06.02.1922
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Bar"   25 mm
NB corrected N		 18.06.1923
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm 04.01.1928
(Putzel)		 12.01.1928
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   01.10.1942
(Aab)		    
7   2C "PO   PK" 32 mm 01.10.1942
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
8 "STASIE" 2C "Blank"   26 mm 24.08.1954
(Putzel)		    
9   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 19.12.1954
(Putzel)		    
10   2C "PK   PO"   27 mm

Last seen
28.02.1933
(Putzel)

 1954
(Visser)		 Republic  
       

TAUNTAN ROAD
18.08.1947 to 03.04.1961
Area: Pietermaritzburg
NOT  RECORDED

TAUTESBERG
1912 to Republic
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   02.11.1913
(Aab)		 194?
(Putzel)		  

TAYLERVILLE
01.09.1920 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   1C "Blank"     08.10.1920
(Putzel)		    

TAYLORS
Union to 01.10.1911
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "NATAL" First seen
22.09.1906
(Putzel)		 Union 01.03.1911
(Aab)		  

TAYSIDE RAIL
01.03.1913 to Republic
Area: Dundee
1   2C "S.AFRICA"   14.10.1920
(Aab)		 01.02.1936
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1939
(Putzel)		    

TBOOP
01.01.1911 to 01.05.1913
A CGH postal agent before Union
Area: Calvinia
NOT  RECORDED