It's the flag, and it is beloved like nothing else in South Africa. You see it everywhere you go in the country, which might sound normal for people from other places. But other places are not ...

South Africa's tallest national flag is unfurled in all its flapping, snapping, cracking glory atop a 60-metre pole mounted in the centre of Gqeberha, or a kilometre-and-a-half from St George's Park.