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Bureau of Information: "Facilitating free flow of Information" : NUSAS - EXPOSING THE LIES

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


Call Number: 1933
Identifier: AL2446_1933
Title: Bureau of Information: "Facilitating free flow of Information" : NUSAS - EXPOSING THE LIES
Date: 1986
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Apartheid Government;
National Union of South African Students - NUSAS;
Press freedom;
Propaganda;
Students;
Youth
Description: This poster is silkscreened black, produced by NUSAS in 1986, Johannesburg. This poster challenges the Department of Information's view of itself as an impartial channel of information. The text reads: "Bureau of Information: "Facilitating free flow of Information" : NUSAS - EXPOSING THE LIES". This poster was digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 176 (number 323) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It has also been included in the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'The Future is Ours: Commemorating Youth in the Struggle'.
Creator: Produced by the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
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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