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Wednesday 1st October '86, day of mourning: Remember the 177 miners killed at Kinross...

Theme: Environment


Call Number: 0763
Identifier: AL2446_0763
Title: Wednesday 1st October '86, day of mourning: Remember the 177 miners killed at Kinross...
Date: 1986
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
National Union of Mineworkers- NUM;
Workers' safety;
Kinross mine disaster;
Labour
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and red, produced by NUM, Johannesburg. This NUM poster condemns the death of 177 mineworkers due to unsafe working conditions. The text reads “Wednesday 1st October '86, day of mourning: Remember the 177 miners killed at Kinross...”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 759 (number 99) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: Produced by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
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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