Old South African Number Plates List -

In the dusty backroom of a Pretoria memorabilia shop, old Jakob “Spanner” van der Merwe carefully lifted a brittle, sun-bleached notebook from a locked cabinet. Its cover read: “Old South African Number Plates List – Provincial Codes 1952–1994.”

Thandi’s breath caught. Her grandfather had been a teacher who protested the forced removals. He vanished one night after being seen talking to a man in a green Anglia. old south african number plates list

Spanner turned more pages, revealing handwritten notes in Afrikaans. “My own father worked at the licensing department,” he said quietly. “He kept a secret register. Cars used by security police had invisible ink markings. This one…” He held the page under a UV lamp. Faint letters glowed: . In the dusty backroom of a Pretoria memorabilia