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Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983

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Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.

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Title
Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Creator
Weinberg, Paul
Subject
Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description
Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date
1983-08
Type
Format
still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier
islandora:889
Source
mss_barricades_used_38.jpg
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Rights
The photographer/creator holds the copyright. Licensed to the UCT Libraries for educational and/or research purposes only. Please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries Special Collections for more information about publishing and/or reproducing this photograph.

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