Eastern Cape artist, Thembani Hastings Mqhayi, has intensified his calls for recognition, insisting that the South African flag is his brainchild. Mqhayi has now written to Minister of Sport, Arts ...

Eastern Cape artist, Thembani Hastings Mqhayi, has intensified his calls for recognition, insisting that the South African flag is his brainchild. Mqhayi has now written to Minister of Sport, Arts ...

This was after the late former president Nelson Mandela, in 1993, made a call that artists and citizens submit designs for the flag of the new and democratic South Africa. Mqhayi said Brownell ...

Last year, IOL reported that the government was embroiled in a legal battle with Mqhayi over the design of the South African flag. The national department of Sport, Arts and Culture has previously ...