Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s

This visual record of grassroots mobilization and resistance reveals the struggle to shatter the silence imposed by massive state repression. Posters celebrate the Congress movement and the principles it has fought so long to uphold: racial equality, democracy, and an end to economic oppression. Produced by ordinary members of community-based organizations during the 1980s, these symbols of defiance are the work of a people confronting the present with courage and determination, and facing the future with strength and hope.