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title: '"Eet geen Outspan sinaasappelen" B.O.A. poster shown at a press conference (Netherlands, 1980)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/outspan-boa-poster-eet-geen-apartheid-1980/
description: 'A man in a ''Boycot Outspan'' T-shirt holds up the campaign poster: a giant hand with the word APARTHEID on its cuff squeezes a Black man''s head over a…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Protest poster showing a Black man's head squeezed in a juicer by a hand labelled 'Apartheid'; a caricature-style image used against South African oranges. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Eet geen Outspan sinaasappelen" B.O.A. poster shown at a press conference (Netherlands, 1980)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/outspan-boa-poster-eet-geen-apartheid-1980.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/outspan-boa-poster-eet-geen-apartheid-1980.jpg)

# "Eet geen Outspan sinaasappelen" B.O.A. poster shown at a press conference (Netherlands, 1980)

A man in a 'Boycot Outspan' T-shirt holds up the campaign poster: a giant hand with the word APARTHEID on its cuff squeezes a Black man's head over a juicer, above 'Eet geen Outspan sinaasappelen' and 'Pers geen Zuid-Afrikaan uit!'. The juicer image loads an everyday grocery brand with the stigma of the South African regime that exports it.

## Text on the object

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

```
[poster, small print above the headline, partly legible:] ...AKTIE PASTEURSTRAAT [number illegible] LEIDEN TEL. 071-142124 GIRO 2648600
EET GEEN
OUTSPAN
SINAASAPPELEN
[boxed, on the cuff of the hand:] APARTHEID
PERS GEEN
ZUID-AFRIKAAN UIT!

[T-shirt, partly hidden by the poster:] BOYCOT
OUTSPAN
SINAASAPPELEN
[illegible, a word beginning A]
PERS G[illegible]
ZUID-AFRIKA[illegible]
```

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

```
[small print:] ...action, Pasteurstraat [number illegible], Leiden, tel. 071-142124, giro 2648600 / Eat no Outspan oranges / [on the cuff:] Apartheid / Squeeze no South African out! (a pun: 'pers' means press or squeeze) / [T-shirt:] Boycott Outspan oranges / Squeeze no South ...
```

Read from a 960 px scan, with the small print above the headline checked at enlargement; the first words of that line are cut off by the man's shoulder and the street number is not legible. On the poster the boxed word APARTHEID sits on the cuff of the squeezing hand. The T-shirt lettering is partly covered by the poster. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent Dutch reader.

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