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TROJAN HORSE Interfaith Commemoration Service

Theme: Militarisation & Repression: Siyaya noba kubi


Call Number: 1646
Identifier: AL2446_1646
Title: TROJAN HORSE Interfaith Commemoration Service
Date: 1987
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
State of emergency;
Trojan Horse;
Massacre;
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and yellow, produced by BEYCO, Cape Town. This poster was produced to advertise a commemoration service for those who died in the "Trojan Horse Massacre" - a police ambush during the state of emergency in which 3 young people were killed and 13 others injured on Thornton Road in Athlone, Cape Town on October 15, 1985. The text reads “TROJAN HORSE Interfaith Commemoration Service” Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 148 (number 270) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: Produced by the Belgravia Youth Congress (BEYCO)
Type: Poster
Format: Preservation image - tiff
Access image - jpeg
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: User restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement.
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