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title: '"Geen boykot = meer geweld in Zuid-Afrika" banner and stained CDA flag, The Hague (1983)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/geen-boykot-meer-geweld-bloody-cda-flag-1983/
description: Protesters outside the Dutch parliament hold a banner reading 'GEEN BOYKOT = MEER GEWELD IN ZUID AFRIKA!' above a Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Protest photograph with a party flag marked with what the archive calls blood; no graphic injury shown. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Geen boykot = meer geweld in Zuid-Afrika" banner and stained CDA flag, The Hague (1983)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/geen-boykot-meer-geweld-bloody-cda-flag-1983.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/geen-boykot-meer-geweld-bloody-cda-flag-1983.jpg)

# "Geen boykot = meer geweld in Zuid-Afrika" banner and stained CDA flag, The Hague (1983)

Protesters outside the Dutch parliament hold a banner reading 'GEEN BOYKOT = MEER GEWELD IN ZUID AFRIKA!' above a Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party flag marked with dark stains that the archive caption calls blood. The equals sign states a policy position as a causal equation, and the stained flag pastes the stigma of violence onto a governing party's own symbol.

## Text on the object

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

```
GEEN BOYKOT =
MEER GEWELD IN
[Z]UID AFRIKA!

[flag:] CDA
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
No boycott = more violence in South Africa! / [flag:] CDA (Christen-Democratisch Appèl, Christian Democratic Appeal)
```

Read from a 960 px scan. The initial Z of ZUID is partly covered by a hand. The archive's own caption spells the last words 'Zuid-Afrika'; the banner is lettered without a hyphen. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent Dutch reader.

[← "STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-suhl-youth-peace-manifestation-stop-sign-1983/) [TASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-statement-unidentified-intruder-kal007-1983/)

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