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HEROES DAY CONCERT

Theme: Community: Azikhwelwa


Call Number: 1314
Identifier: AL2446_1314
Title: HEROES DAY CONCERT
Date: 1987
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Gardens Youth Congress -GAYCO;
Heroes’ Day;
16 December;
Umkhonto
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and yellow, produced by the Gardens Youth Congress (GAYO), Cape Town. This image refers to a Cape Town youth congress who celebrated the 16 December- Heroes’ Day. They celebrated it in the form of a concert, when Umkhonto was launched in 1961. The text reads: “HEROES DAY CONCERT “Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 93 (number 171) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: Gardens Youth Congress (GAYCO)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some material is held by individual poster makers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information
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