HERMANUS REDCROSS

The South African Red Cross Society was recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 10 May 1928 and admitted as a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (the Federation) on 24 June 1929 (then called the League). A Memorandum and Articles of Association were provisionally adopted in 1930. In 1932, the Governor General, in terms of the Geneva Conventions, granted authority to The South African Red Cross Society to use the emblem and the words "Red Cross".

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