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
- Made by
- African National Congress, Western Cape (Department of Communications)
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Country
- South Africa
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Mbeki Government
- Leader
- Thabo Mbeki
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity
- Techniques
- Name-callingScapegoating
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from English Wikipedia), 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
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.
