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  • Israelis love living among its verdant hills amid vineyards, waterfalls and fields of King Protea flowers.

    In Golan Heights, 2008

  • The rugby blazers however would have to sport the King Protea on its own.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The commission recommended that further permission for Sarfu to use the Springbok emblem with the garland of Proteas be withdrawn and that rugby's national team use the King Protea in accordance with rugby's acceptance of this symbol as the national sports symbol.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Springbok symbol should be withdrawn and rugby's national team should use the King Protea in accordance with rugby's acceptance of this symbol as the national sports symbol, the commission said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The giant or King Protea, South Africa†™ s national flower, is the largest of the proteas species, which make up an important part of the Cape Floral Region, a major global biodiversity hotspot and Unesco World Heritage site.

    The Times of India 2010

  • The compromise idea of combining the Springbok and the King Protea has already received support from former Education Minister and ANC stalwart Kader Asmal.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2008

  • The compromise idea of combining the Springbok and the King Protea has already received support from former Education Minister and ANC stalwart Kader Asmal.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2008

  • While all South Africa's other national teams now use the King Protea as their emblem, the Springbok, representing a graceful, fast and elegant antelope, retained its place as the rugby symbol largely due to former President Nelson Mandela's unequivocal endorsement when he famously wore the shirt during the team's historic World Cup victory on home soil in 1995.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2008

  • However, it will have to move from the left-hand side of the national rugby jersey to the right to accommodate the King Protea.

    News24 2008

  • The president's council of the South African Rugby Union (Saru) has resolved to add the national sports emblem of the King Protea to the playing jersey of national rugby teams.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2008

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