Flag of the Natalia Republic

Emigrant Boers ('voortrekkers') from the Cape Colony established an independent state in 1839, on territory conquered from the Zulus.

After three years of military occupation, the United Kingdom formally annexed Natalia, as 'Natal', in May 1844.

They returned to public notice only after the South African Archives acquired the papers of Professor Ulrich Lauts in 1925.

"The white, however, stretches from a point in the middle of the hoist to the full width of the cloth at the end of the flag".

[2][3] An article in a popular magazine in 1928 brought this description of the flag to the public's attention.