Anti-Apartheid Movement
London, United Kingdom
1988
A full-length photograph of Oscar Mpetha shows him wearing a suit, with his ankles chained together. A simple drawing of prison barbed wire is behind him; the slogan “Free Oscar Mpetha” is on a bright red sign framed in black next to him. Mpetha was a founder member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and an African National Congress (ANC) member since 1951. In 1980, Mpetha was arrested after taking part in protests in Nyanga, Cape Town, in which two people were killed. After a long trial, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment. He was eventually released in 1989, soon after his 80th birthday.
IN SOUTH AFRICA, A 79 YEAR OLD TRADE UNIONIST IS IN PRISON FOR FIGHTING AGAINST APARTHEID - YOUR ACTION CAN HELP SECURE HIS RELEASE
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This item was digitized by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee, which made it available to the African Activist Archive.
Used by permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee.
Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
