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FORWARD WITH DEMOCRATIC SRC'S : DOWN WITH APARTHEID EDUCATION

Theme: Education and Organising the Youth


Call Number: 0534
Identifier: AL2446_0534
Title: FORWARD WITH DEMOCRATIC SRC'S : DOWN WITH APARTHEID EDUCATION
Date: 1985
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Bomgani Khumalo;
Congress of South African Students - COSAS;
Education;
Students
Description: This poster is silkscreened black, produced by COSAS at the STP, Johannesburg. This poster consists of the face of the late Bongani Khumalo, a student who was killed in 1984. COSAS placed his face on the upper right-hand corner of this poster, to support their struggle against apartheid education. The text reads: "FORWARD WITH DEMOCRATIC SRC'S : DOWN WITH APARTHEID EDUCATION". This poster was digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 111 (number 202) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 136 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007, as well as the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'The Future is Ours: Commemorating Youth in the Struggle'.
Creator: Produced by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) at the Screen Training Project (STP)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpeg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: User restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement.
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