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
"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.
- Date
- May 1, 1980
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Stichting Boycot Outspan Aktie (B.O.A.), Netherlands; photograph by Hans van Dijk for Anefo
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Van Agt Government
- Leader
- Dries van Agt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Nationaal Archief / Anefo), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief / Anefo; Commons CC-zero tag)
Hans van Dijk / Anefo, Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), CC0 1.0, no. 930-8106, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
[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]
[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.
