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title: 'ANC Western Cape Poster: "DP + NNP Stole Your Homes" (c. 2001)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anc-district-six-election-poster-2001/
description: A black-and-white election poster reads 'DP + NNP STOLE YOUR HOMES' over 'ANC GIVES DISTRICT 6 BACK', splitting the sheet into an accusation in the top…
section: Collection
---

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[![ANC Western Cape Poster: "DP + NNP Stole Your Homes" (c. 2001)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anc-district-six-election-poster-2001.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anc-district-six-election-poster-2001.jpg)

# ANC Western Cape Poster: "DP + NNP Stole Your Homes" (c. 2001)

A black-and-white election poster reads 'DP + NNP STOLE YOUR HOMES' over 'ANC GIVES DISTRICT 6 BACK', splitting the sheet into an accusation in the top half and a credit claim in the bottom half. The verb 'stole' is the loaded label, and it is applied to two named opposition parties as a bloc for a removal policy carried out decades earlier.

- **Date:** 2001
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** African National Congress, Western Cape (Department of Communications)
- **Region:** [Sub-Saharan Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=sub-saharan-africa)
- **Country:** [South Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=south-africa)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [Mbeki Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=mbeki-government)
- **Leader:** [Thabo Mbeki](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=thabo-mbeki)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from English Wikipedia)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ANC-gives-back-district-six-poster.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (photographer's release; poster is plain lettering only) Photograph by Henry M. Trotter, released to the public domain, via English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
DP + NNP
STOLE YOUR
HOMES

ANC GIVES
DISTRICT 6
BACK

ISSUED BY ANC WESTERN CAPE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS, [illegible] ROAD, ATHLONE. PRINTED BY ALLIED PRESS, [illegible] AVE, ELSIES RIVER
```

The headline text is large and clear. The small imprint line along the bottom edge is blurred at 764 px; the street names are not reliably readable and are marked [illegible]. Two staples or wire ties pass through the sheet across the words STOLE and BACK without hiding the letters.

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