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  • (7r) – Stop Smoking: man who is making a
    cup of tea) being admonished about smoking
    by a blue bird

  • (7r) – Limit Alcohol: Couple drinking miniature
    glasses of wine by candlelight


059 International Firefighters’ Day, eight
self-adhesive values in a sheetlet
Issue date: June 26, 2015; Design: Jaco Botha;
Printer: Southern Colour Print, New Zealand,
offset; Perforations: die-cut 12 x 12.25; Non-
denominate, stamps for ‘Standard Postage’
Self-adhesive sheetlet, contains


  • Dennis fire engine of 1920, and fire station
    of that period

  • Modern fire engine with turntable ladder

  • Modern firefighters using water-hose on fire

  • Mountain rescue: firefighter riding with
    causalty on stretcher on hoist

  • Firefighters carrying a stretcher

  • Firefighters attending an overturned vehicle

  • Men in dinghy assisting swimmer in trouble

  • Firefighter in a school classroom,
    giving safety instruction


060 60th anniversary of the Freedom
Charter, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: June 26, 2015;
Design: Cyril Maphumulo; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.2 x 13.2
Miniature sheet R5 – crowd cheering, with flags
Notes: Charter was adopted by a ‘Congress of
the People’ in Kliptown (SOWETO) June 26, 1955

061 The Women’s Charter, 17 April 1954,
Johannesburg, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: August 7, 2015; Design: Rachel-
Mari Ackermann; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.2 x 13.2
Miniature sheet R5 – preamble to the Charter
(on women’s rights and opportunities) published
in Johannesburg by women’s rights activists

062 Jellyfish in South African Waters, ten
self-adhesive values in a sheetlet
Issue date: August 12, 2015; Design: Sheila
Collikns; Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations: die-
cut 14.5 x 14.5. Non-denominated.
Sheetlet:
B5 (6.55r) – Barrel jellyfish, Rhizostoma sp.
B5 (6.55r) – St Lucia jellyfish,
Crambionella stuhlmanni
B5 (6.55r) – Box jellyfish, Chirodropus branchi
B5 (6.55r) – Mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca
B5 (6.55r) – Purple compass jellyfish,
Chrysaora africana
B5 (6.55r) – Cape barrel jellyfish,
Eupilema inexpectata
B5 (6.55r) – Benguela compass jellyfish,
Chrysaora fulgida

B5 (6.55r) – Box jellyfish, Chirodropus gorilla
B5 (6.55r) – Pink meanie jellyfish,
Drymonema sp.
B5 (6.55r) – Helmet jellyfish,
Periphylla periphylla
Notes: The stamps form a composite view, with
other marine life on the ocean floor shown in
the border. Stamps were affixed separately (5 +
5) to two First Day Covers

063 XIV World Forestry Congress, South
Africa, five self-adhesive
values in a miniature sheet
Issue date: September 7, 2015; Design:
Annemarie Wessels; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: die-cut 14.5 x 14.5.; Non-
denominated
B4 (8r) – ‘Transforming Livelihoods’: hikers on
trail, and man carving sticks
B4 (8r) – ‘Forest Products’: men using chainsaw
to fell tree, and loading logs on transporter
B4 (8r) – ‘Forest Governance’. Forest
service official carrying out ecosystem check
(measuring a seven week fern)
B4 (8r) – ‘Indigenous forest dwellers’ (from
different South African regions): samango
monkey, knysna dwarf chameleon, blue duiker,
emperor swallowtail butterfly
B4 (8r) – Forest recovering after fire: outeniqua
yellow wood, tropical cinnabar bracket fungus,
lepiota fungi, James flower, falling star lilies
Border depicts a forest plantation

TRISTAN da CUNHA
(previously listed in February 2016 issue)

064 Early Mail Ships. Definitives,
twelve values
Issue date: December 8, 2015;
Design: Andrew Robinson; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 14
1p – HMS Odin, built 1901; called at
Tristan January 23, 1904
2p – RMS Asturias, built 1925; called at
Tristan February 15, 1927
5p – SS Empress of France; called at
Tristan 28 February, 1928, with nine
tons of stores and eight mail bags
10p – HMS Carlisle. Visited Tristan Jan 7,
1932, and February 28, 1937
25p – Barque Ponape, built 1903. Visited
Tristan June or July 1934
35p – RMS Atlantis (previously the Andes).
Visited Tristan February 19, 1934
45p – Barquetine Cap Pilar. Called at
Tristan Jan 31, 1937
60p – RMS Franconia. Visited Tristan
February 21, 1939
£1 – HMS Queen of Bermuda, built 1933;
called at Tristan August 24, 1940

(on wartime patrol as an amed
merchant cruiser)
£1.50 – HMS Caernarvon Castle, visited
Tristan November 15, 1940 as
armed merchant ship
£2 – RMS Darro; built 1935. Called at
Tristan 11 October, 1945: the first
vessel to call at Tristan after end of
the Second World War
£5 – MV Pequena, a wooden-hulled
vessel built in Nova Scotia as
a minesweeper, converted for
crawfishing. Called at Tristan
regularly between 1948 and 1953

TUNISIA
(previously listed in March 2016 issue)

065 International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women, one value
Issue date: November 25, 2013;
Design: Hela Ben Chaikh; Printer: Post Printer,
offset; Perforations: 13 x 13
600m – Face of a woman and white ribbon

066 65th anniversary of the International
Declaration of Human Rights, one value
Issue date: December 10, 2013;
Design: Sihem Chaabene; Printer: Post Printer,
offset; Perforations: 12.8 x 12.6
600m – Man with broken chains
hailing a dove of peace

067 Tunisian Personalities, four values
Issue date: December 27, 2013;
Design: Hela Ben Cheikh, and Samir Ben
Gouiaa; Printer: Post Printer, Tunis; Perforations:
12.8 x 12.6 (Dhahhak), 0r 12.6 x 12.8
250m – Ibrahim Dhahhak, 1931-2004,
woodcarver, artist
250m – Youssef Rekik, 1940-2012,
playwright and artist,
with glass painting
600m – Tahar Cheriaa, 1927-2010,
cineaste. Portrait of the founder of
Carthage Cinema Festival
1,000m – Zoubeida Bechir, 1938-2011,
poetess, broadcaster,
with poetry book

068 50th anniversary of Diplomatic
Relations between Tunisia and the Peoples
Republic of China, one value
Issue date: January 14, 2014;
Printer: not reported; Perforations: 13.3 x 13.3
700m – Archway / bridge over the Medjerda


  • Cap Bon canal in Tunisia, flags
    Notes: joint issue with P.R. China
    (Chinese design depicted Great Wall of
    China). Joint FDCs were released 054


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