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(AFRICA—AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.) NELSON MANDELA.
Scrap-book, recording the struggle to end Apartheid.
Fourteen original printed fly-
ers, booklets, and a couple of multi-page mimeographed items, along with Xerox copies of
contemporary newspapers etc, tying it all together and encompassing the struggle from
circa 1967 through circa 1975; housed in a leatherette portfolio.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Johannesburg, Soweto, etc, 1967—1975
[2,000/3,000]
Original flyers from the early days of the ANC, such as “We Bring You a Message. The
African National Congress Calls you to Action!” a double sided flyer with the portrait of
Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela; printed on very thin paper, in Bantu, Swahili, Xhosa etc;
other flyers or pamphlets include: “Sons and Daughters of Africa,” “Forward To Freedom, We
Call the Coloured Community” “We Shall Win,” “The African National Congress says to
Vorster and His Gang, Your Days are Coming to an End!” A scarce booklet in comic book
form, called “The Story of Simon and Jane,” which was obviously aimed at the greater masses,
of people with limited reading skills. The last item in this “scrap book” is a mimeographed
newsletter called “VUKANI—AWAKE,” No 2. March, 1975. “For the Liberation of South
Africa and all of Her Peoples.”
T
HIS COLLECTION IS AN EXCEPTIONAL
,
PERSONAL
RECORD FROM SOMEONE INSIDE THE ANTI
-A
PARTHEID STRUGGLE OF THE LATE
1960’
S THROUGH THE LATE
1970’
S
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