2010.54.10880

1988 Calendar
1988
16.375 in HIGH x 23.25 in WIDE
(41.59 cm HIGH x 59.05 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.10880

Left middle printed in small brown text "media art ensemble".

Poster has brown text and images printed on beige paper with black, yellow, and green accents. Bottom half of poster has six columns/two rows of monthly calendars, with January-June on the left and July-December on the right. In the middle of the two clusters of calendars is an image of Thami Mnyele with a short biography of the man beneath. Centered at the bottom of the poster is the text "`1988 Calendar: Issued By The African National Congress" in Lusaka, Zambia. Four photos occupy the top half of the poster. An image of women with their fists thrust in the air and the text "Women Arise! Organise, Unite For People''s Power!" is on the right. Two horizontal images, one above the other, are at the center of the top of the poster. The top image shows a crowd of people being herded by men with guns and text that reads "Let Us All Support The Fight! In Nyanga, Kromdraai, Crossroads, Soekmakaar, The People Say: No To Resettlement!" with the bottom image showing another group of people being detained by men with guns, with a central male figure in tears. The image at the right of the poster shows a man with a gun holding the hand of a young boy while an older man looks on. Text at the bottom of the image reads "let us arm ourselves with the fealessness of Shaka; the vision and endurance of Moshoe-shoe; the dedication and farsightedness of Sol Plaatjie; the military initiative and guerilla tactics of Maqoma...December 16 Heroes_Day".
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