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Bok Driver and his Bleriot

The first air mail in South Africa

. F. Driver, also known as Bok, transported commemorative envelopes between Kenilworth and Muizenberg in a Bleriot aeroplane as part of an advertising campaign. This was the first time that mail was flown in South Africa. However, it took a long time before the Post Office began an official air-mail

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