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
"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.
- Date
- June 21, 1983
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Anti-apartheid protesters outside the Tweede Kamer, The Hague (no organisation named on the banner); photograph by Rob Bogaerts for Anefo
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Lubbers Government
- Leader
- Ruud Lubbers
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Nationaal Archief / Anefo), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief / Anefo; Commons CC-zero tag)
Rob Bogaerts / Anefo, Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), CC0 1.0, no. 932-6281, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
GEEN BOYKOT = MEER GEWELD IN [Z]UID AFRIKA! [flag:] CDA
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.
