After going over SA copyright law it seems that the South African Coat of Arms does indeed belong in the public domain as according to the Copyright Act 12 8 a No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative administrative or legal nature or in official translations of such texts The file is from such a source which you can find here I therefore recommend that all images that are derived from South African governmental works have their copyright status amended to the public domain so that they may be used on templates and anywhere else where they may have formerly been restricted Kind Regards