Order of the Southern Cross (South Africa)

[1] The ribbon is red with two broad white and blue stripes.

This order of chivalry is awarded only to foreigners and is intended for "conspicuous and exceptional services to South Africa" ​​(for singular and exceptional achievement).

[2][3] Nobel Prize winners, physician Christiaan Barnard who was the first to successfully transplant a human heart, ANC chairman Oliver Tambo and Chief Luthuli wear or wore this cross in gold.

The writer Nadine Gordimer, Es'kia Mphahlele and the palaeontologist Phillip Tobias received the silver cross.

A golden ornament serves as a heightening and connection to the ribbon.