SA Slogan Cancellers

#1 · July 4, 2020, 3:20 pm

Does anyone have any information about these please?

Thanks in advance.

Sandy R

#2 · July 4, 2020, 4:57 pm

Large subject ...

For Union slogan cancellers, the best source is probably Vermaak's "A chronology of the postal slogans of South Africa", published in 1979. There have been a number of articles and notes in SAP over the years - especially by Hockey, Cairncross and van den Hurk.

What are you trying to find out?

Bas

#3 · July 5, 2020, 9:48 am

This will not be very helpful in terms of understanding SA slogan-cancellers but ..... the word 'slogan' as I understand it is a short, pithy Scottish clan warcry. So, if you imagine Scottish clans facing off against each other, or against the English or whoever, they would shout something short but not so sweet, repeating a brief statement about the nature of the other side's mothers or manhood, etc. No doubt, this was intended to make the other side mad enough to charge forward and fight on unfavourable ground. All SA and other countries' slogan cancellers did much the same thing, repeat the message in an effort to get a response leading to action.