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WELCOME DOROTHY NYEMBE : Women of South Africa are proud of you : March 1984

Theme: Women in detention


Call Number: 2407
Identifier: AL2446_2407
Title: WELCOME DOROTHY NYEMBE : Women of South Africa are proud of you : March 1984
Date: 1984
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Federation of South African Women -FEDSAW;
Women;
Prison;
Leadership;
Dorothy Nyembe
Description: This poster is silkscreened black and green, produced at STP for FEDSAW. This poster features a drawing of activist, Dorothy Nyembe, who was released from prison after a 15-year sentence. The text reads: "WELCOME DOROTHY NYEMBE : Women of South Africa are proud of you : March 1984". Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 88 (number 58) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 123 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007 as well as the SAHA Exhibition Kit - Women.
Creator: Produced at the Screen Training Project (STP) for the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image – jpeg
Preservation image – tiff
Source: SAHA Collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some materials are held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information.
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