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.

Former South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool was “clearly a red flag to a bull for the ... If we wanted to set South Africa-US relations, he was clearly not the person ...