Postal History of
the SOUTH AFRICAN  REPUBLIC

 

Post Offices GERMISTON to HAENETSBURG

GERMISTON

Opened: 1890-1900 HQ: East Rand PO Type: PA, PO 1895 Period: ZAR
1   TRIANGLE "39" Reported by Visser
also see Eureka		      
2   Octagonal "Z.A.R."   12.03.1893
(Aab)		 25.09.1893
(S. Payne)		  
3   SQC "?" no date seen  
(S. Payne)		  
4   "ZAR"   Small ZAR 05.06.1897 09.03.1900
(Aab)		  
still used in Transvaal      
5   "ZAR"   Larger ZAR 07.11.1893
(Aab)		 02.05.1899
(S. Payne)		  

GODWANSRIVIER

Opened: 1892-1901? HQ: Machadodorp PO Type: PA Period: ZAR
1   2C Z.A.R.   16.01.1896
(S. Payne)		 02.09.1899  

www.stevedrewett.com 		 

GOMMAMAAN

Opened: 1893-1901 Area: Vrijheid PO Type: PA Period: ZAR
 The hamlet of Gommamaan in the Vryheid District was one of the post offices incorporated in Natal. The first postal agent had opened there in 1893 and operated until being closed in the Anglo-Boer War – only to reopen situated in Natal!

    2C Z.A.R.   14.01.1898
(S. Payne)		 21.02.1899
(S. Payne)		  

All covers seen in 1901
 are philatelic!!!		      

GREIJLINGSTAD

Opened: 1886-1900 HQ: HeidelbergPO Type: PA Period: ZAR
1   2C Z.A.R.   30.04.1893
(Aab)		 06.12.1899
(S. Payne)		  
       

GROENFONTEIN

Opened: 1890-1893 HQ: Rustenburg PO Type: PA
No postal markings seen

Letter to Groenfontein, backstamped Steenbokfontein
No postmark

GROENVLEI
1881 to1900
Area: Wakkerstroom
1   2C Z.A.R.
Johan
Bezuidenhout		 New discovery 31.12.1896
(Johan
Bezuidenhout)		    

GROOT AFDELING

Opened: 1898-1900 HQ: Zeerust PO Type: PA
No postal markings seen

GROOTFONTEIN

Opened: 1894-1900 HQ: Nylstroom PO Type: PA
No postal markings seen

GROOT MARICO

Opened: 1868-1872 HQ: Zeerust PO Type: PA
No postal markings seen

GROOT OLIFANTSRIVIER

Opened: 1899-1900 HQ: Middelburg PO Type: PA
1   2C Z.A.R. New discovery ??.12.1899
(S. Payne)		    

GROOTPAN

Opened: 1893-1900 HQ: Middelburg PO Type: PA
1   2C Z.A.R.   28.12.1894
(S.Payne)		 21.02.1898
(Visser)		  

GROOTSPELONKEN

Opened: 1899-1901 HQ: Pietersburg PO Type: PA
No postal markings seen

GROOTSUIKERBOSCHKOP

Opened: 1887-1900 HQ: Lydenburg PO Type: PA
1   Triangle "40"   01.06.1895
(Aab)		    
2   OCTAGON "Z.A.R."
Rhodesia.co.za		 First copy seen 01.06.1895
(Rhodesia)		    

HAENERTSBURG

Opened: 1888-1901 Area: Pietersburg PO Type: PA
1   Triangle "8"        
2   OVAL  
  06.11.1888
(Bas Payne)		 02.07.1889
(Bas Payne)		  
3   SQC Z.A.R.   19.12.1890
(Bas Payne)		 04.02.1901
(Bas Payne)		  
       
4   2C Z.A.R.   24.09.1896
(Aab)		 03.09.1900
(Bas Payne)		  
       
5   SQ-OCT     05.02.1889 ??.04.1895