The Rand Easter Show, now the Rand Show, is an annual show held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the largest consumer exhibition in Southern Africa. The show was first held in November 1894 by the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society, a society that had formed in March of the same year. In 1936, the Rand Show was called the Empire Exhibition.
The eleven-day show was historically an agricultural exhibition for all South Africans where livestock, poultry, yearlings, farm products and equipment were shown and judged with prizes awarded in the form of Gold and Silver medals. In later years it also featured industrial and commercial exhibitions and would eventually attract foreign participants who would exhibit country pavilions.
Mr Anson Lloyd, chairman of the South Africa Sugar Association, formally handed over their Sugar Pavilion for the use of the Malawi Government on Easter Monday, 1970. The use of the pavilion was accepted by John Tembo, Minister of Trade and Industry, Malawi.
Details
- Date of Issue: 18 March 1970
- Date Withdrawn:
- Date Invalidated:
- Subject: Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
- Designer: Victor Whiteley
- Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark: Cockerels
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A
- Sheet: R5 x 12 (60 stamps)
- Quantity:
Sheet Numbers
These stamps also appear with a red sheet number applied alongside the black sheet number.
References
- The South African Sugar Year Book Volume 40
- Wikipedia: Rand Show