Editing Polokwane (section)

==Coats of arms==

===Municipal (1)===
By 1931, the Pietersburg municipal council had assumed a pseudo-heraldic "coat of arms". The shield depicted a crossed pick and shovel, two crossed wheatsheaves, and the date 1904 surrounded by a ribbon and bearing the motto {{lang|la|[[Labor omnia vincit]]}}. The crest was an ostrich.<ref name=cig>The arms were depicted on a [http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Category:UTC_South_African_town_arms cigarette card] issued in 1931.</ref>

[[File:Pietersburg (Polokwane) Coat of Arms 1931 to 1967.jpg|thumb|The Coat of Arms of Pietersburg from 1931 to 1967]]

=== Municipal (2) ===
A proper coat of arms was designed in the 1960s. It was registered with the Transvaal Provincial Administration in August 1967<ref name=og>Transvaal ''Official Gazette'' 3288 (30 August 1967).</ref> and at the [[Bureau of Heraldry]] in September 1969.<ref name="boh">[https://archive.today/20120629122538/http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl]</ref>

The arms were : ''Azure, on a fess Argent, between in chief a lion passant Argent, armed and langued Gules, and in base two chevrons humette, and a horseshoe Argent, placed 2 and 1, two cogwheels Gules''. In layman's terms, this was a blue shield displaying, from top to bottom, a silver lion with red tongue and claws, a silver stripe bearing two red cogwheels, and two silver chevrons and a horseshoe.

The crest was a golden eagle, and the motto, once again, was ''Labor omnia vincit''.
[[File:SADF era Pietersburg Commando emblem.jpg|thumb|The Coat of Arms of Pietersburg from 1967 to 2003]]

===Municipal (3)===
The Pietersburg municipal council registered a new coat of arms at the Bureau in October 2003.<ref name="boh"/>

The arms are: ''Vert, on a fess Argent, a woven grain basket, between two hoes with blades turned inward proper, their handles towards centre-base counterchanged Or and issuant from a voided cogwheel the inner ring cotised Argent, therein a sun Or; on a chief of the last a short-clawed Lark (''Mirafra chuana'') perched upon a leaf of the silky thorn tree (''Acacia rehmanniana'') proper, between two demi-peaks with points embattled Brunatre, issuant from the respective shield flanks''. In layman's terms, the shield depicts, from top to bottom, (1) a short-clawed lark perched on an acacia leaf between two stylised peaks, (2) a woven grain basket between two hoes on a silver background, and (3) a silver cogwheel on a green background.

Above the shield is a brown rustic crown. The motto is ''Unity - Equity - Progress - Prosperity''.
[[File:Polokwane (Pietersburg) Coat of Arms 2003-.jpg|thumb|The Coat of Arms of Polokwane from 2003-]]