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0503 :: THERE SHALL BE HOUSES SECURITY AND COMFORT FOR ALL: ABOLISH GROUP AREAS

Call Number: 0503
Identifier: AL2446_0503
Title: THERE SHALL BE HOUSES SECURITY AND COMFORT FOR ALL: ABOLISH GROUP AREAS
Date: 1989
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD; housing; Equality; Bill of Rights; Group areas act
Description: This poster is silkscreened black, red and yellow, produced by GAYCO at the CAP, Cape Town. This poster was produced by a youth congress, who were based in a white area. This congress opposed the Group Areas Act and popularised the Freedom Charter's call for houses for all. The text reads “THERE SHALL BE HOUSES SECURITY AND COMFORT FOR ALL: ABOLISH GROUP AREAS”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 85 (number 151) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 91 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007.
Creator: Produced by the Gardens Youth Congress (GAYCO) at the Community Arts Project (CAP)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpeg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA Collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
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