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Don't vote in apartheid elections!; Forward to freedom.

Theme: Politics: forward to people's power!


Call Number: 0182
Identifier: AL2446_0182
Title: Don't vote in apartheid elections!; Forward to freedom.
Date: 1984
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Elections;
Apartheid;
United Democratic Front - UDF;
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black ,yellow and red, issued by J. de Vries and designed for the UDF by the Screen Training Project (STP), Johannesburg and Cape Town. The UDF called on coloured and Indian South Africans to refuse to vote in the tricameral parliament elections.This poster refers to the UDF and how it was formed to oppose the tri-cameral system and all apartheid elections.The text reads “Don't vote in apartheid elections!; Forward to freedom.”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 33 (number 50) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 128 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007.
Creator: Designed for the United Democratic Front (UDF) by the Screen Training Project (STP)
Type: Poster
Format: preservation image/tiff
access image/jpeg
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: User restriction may apply. See SAHA copyright statement.
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