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Democracy?: WHITE PARLIAMENT: DP REV RAJ NP CP : OUR LEADERS ARE JAILED! 80% OF US CANNOT VOTE!

Theme: Politics: forward to people's power!


Call Number: 1055
Identifier: AL2446_1055
Title: Democracy?: WHITE PARLIAMENT: DP REV RAJ NP CP : OUR LEADERS ARE JAILED! 80% OF US CANNOT VOTE!
Date: 1989
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Elections;
Repression;
Political detention;
Democracy;
Leaders;
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black, produced by the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), Johannesburg. This poster refers to the 6 September 1989, where government held yet another whites-only election, while popular organisations were banned and popular leaders were imprisoned. The text reads “Democracy?: WHITE PARLIAMENT: DP REV RAJ NP CP : OUR LEADERS ARE JAILED! 80% OF US CANNOT VOTE!”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 39 (number 60) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: Produced by the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM)
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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