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National Congress Cultural Day

Theme: Culture: The doors of culture shall be opened!


Call Number: 0041
Identifier: AL2446_0041
Title: National Congress Cultural Day
Date: 18 July 1987
Subject: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU);
Congresses;
Culture;
Hlanganani Basebenzi;
Labour
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black, red and yellow, produced by COSATU, Johannesburg. This poster depicts the importance of culture to workers at their cultural day. The text reads “National Congress Cultural Day” Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 171 (number 313) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 176 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007, as well as the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Hlanganani Basebenzi: Commemorating South Africa's Labour Movement'.
Contributor: Photo by Cedric Nunn; Marlene Powell
Creator: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpeg
Preservation image - tiff

Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some materials is held by individual postermakers/orgnanisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information.
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