Apartheid Kills: Stop the Tour, Day of Shame (Wellington protest poster, 1981)
A black-and-white protest poster over a dense silhouetted crowd of raised fists, headed 'APARTHEID KILLS' and 'STOP THE TOUR', that announces a 'day of SHAME' march on 22 July with assembly points in Wellington and the Hutt, then a second gathering on 25 July. The massed crowd and the call to assemble invite the reader to join, and 'Apartheid Kills' and 'day of shame' are compressed labels rather than argued claims.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 1981
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Anti-tour protest organisers, Wellington (no organisation named on the poster); negative held by Wellington City Council Archives
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- New Zealand
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Muldoon Government
- Leader
- Robert Muldoon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Race and ethnicity
- Event
- 1981 Springbok Tour
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wellington City Council Archives (Archives Online), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (Wellington City Council Archives licence statement, record 00291-4736-154)
Wellington City Council Archives, 00291-4736-154, CC BY 4.0 (https://archivesonline.wcc.govt.nz/nodes/view/849718).
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
W Pain Box [DEMONSTRATIONS] 1981 APARTHEID KILLS STOP THE TOUR JULY 22 day of SHAME ASSEMBLE FOR MARCH WELLINGTON: 12.30 CIVIC SQUARE HUTT: 1p.m. town hall JULY 25 CENOTAPH 2.30
The handwritten line at the top is the archive's pencilled filing note; its first words are hard to read and are given as best read. Show-through text from the reverse of the sheet is [illegible] and omitted.
