Talk:Flag of Namibia

Colors

Does anyone know why the colors are considered significant? Noahbain 01:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Errors /Inconsistencies

1) The flag was adopted after a competition in 1990 - for sure not in 1971. 2) The colours blue-red-green are not "the most important colours of the Ovambos" - what kind of a statement is that? Did you go and ask them? Where is a reference for such a statement? It's the colours of SWAPO. SWAPO is numerically dominated by oshiwambos-speakers, but that does not make the colours "Owambo". 3) That the flag includes the colours of the DTA is an assumption. It must be either referenced or marked as an assumption. 41.182.28.11 (talk) 18:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Claim about design of the Namibian flag

copied over from Talk:Namibia

The present claim that the current Namibian Flag was designed by the South African Master of Heraldry. That is a false or incorrect assumption. The Herald's task was to approve/ reject heraldic dervices.

My name is Roy Walter Allen resident in Windhoek , I was the creator and publisher of the quarterly SWA/Namibian business magazine entitled SWA/Namibia SPECTRUM, published from 1979 to 1982. I also contributed editorial and fetures to the Windhoek Observer weekly newspaper, and its Editor in Chief suggested a competition forthe design of a national flag for Namibia, to represent the projected winning party of the Namibian political elections. The colours of the flag I designed were royal blue. with a diaginal broad red stripe representing the series of conflicts for the territory, including the Mermasn campaignd, WW 1 and 11, and the Border War. I added the gold pictogram in the upper dexter corner which depicts the form of government I had proposed which would represent, by stylized triangular 'sun rays', with each 'ray' representing one of the constituent ethnic groups equally , ruling by concensus at a 'round' table.

The late celebrated Windhoek artist Dieter Aschenborn whom I knew while resident in Windhoek remarked, when I showed him the flag design at my home in Windhoerk West , that it would be one of the most attractive flags at the UN headquarters if accepted.

At the end f the Border War , after the SWAPO party had emerged victorious in the electionw which followed, I was reliably informed that its Leader,Dr Sam Nujoma personally liked my flag concept, but in order that it would display the all the colours of SWAPO, proposed that one of the large blue panels be changed to green.

This was agreed, and the design was submitted to the South African College of Heralds in Pretoria. and was unanimously approved by the Herald of that time, but was in no way designed by him or any other official at that office.

Signed and warranted.
Originator & Designer of the Namibian National Flag - Roy W.Allen
email for correspondence : gdp1@webmail.co.za

( NB I also wish to send supporting documents to expand the text on the subject. Please provide an email address to which they may be sent to wikipedia. )
92.232.55.198 (talk) 19:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Mr Allen, we generally reflect what third-party sources say. The topic of how the Namibian flag was designed does not occur in this article but in Flag of Namibia where a similar claim had been added (and reverted) last year. Flag of Namibia is essentially unreferenced, and as a "stub" one of our worst articles. But we add / change content only if we have a reference for that. Can you point us to any newspaper, academic journal, government publication, etc., that supports your statement? Then we can definitely use that to put the facts straight.

I have taken the liberty to copy this discussion to Talk:Flag of Namibia. Regards, Pgallert (talk) 20:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

blazon

In Blazon: Tierced per bend sinister Azure, and Vert, a bend sinister Gules fimbriated Argent and in dexter chief a Sun with twelve straight rays Or charged with an annulet Azure.

No. The keyword tierced means a partition into three equal pieces, so it should be followed by three tinctures. A correct blazon would begin either Tierced in bend sinister azure, gules and vert, fimbriated argent or (better, as the red is narrower than the other two fields) Per bend sinister azure and vert, a bend sinister gules fimbriated argent. —Tamfang (talk) 01:09, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

The three combined designs claim

The source in the origin of the design in the "Design" section as a result of a combination of the three final entries is fine, HOWEVER I would like to question what those particular three designs were, I have scoured through the internet and have yet to find those three particular designs in flag form. It would be nice to include them in this section just like the Union Jack that has that unique "combination" table of each flag. PyroFloe (talk) 14:43, 21 March 2021 (UTC)