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RELEASE OUR PEOPLE : RALLY

Theme: Militarisation & Repression: Siyaya noba kubi


Call Number: 0186
Identifier: AL2446_0186
Title: RELEASE OUR PEOPLE : RALLY
Date: March 1985
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Detention;
Detainees Support Committee - DESCOM;
Detainees Parents Support Committee - DPSC;
Rallies;
United Democratic Front - UDF
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and red, produced by DESCOM, DPSC and the UDF in 1985. This poster was produced to advertise a rally in Evaton, a Vaal Triangle township. The text reads: "RELEASE OUR PEOPLE: RALLY". This poster was digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 150 (number 274) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 148 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007, as well as the SAHA online exhibition - 'Between Life and Death: Stories from John Vorster Square', 2012.
Creator: Produced by the Detainees Support Committee (DESCOM); the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF)
Type: Poster
Format: Access copy - jpeg
Preservation copy - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement.
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