No Botha

In 1982, PW Botha, president of the white South African republic, proposed a “new deal” through a series of bills. Botha wanted to form a “tricameral parliament”. Apartheid already classified people into categories by race: African (previously labelled “Bantu”), white, Indian, and coloured. This plan called for those people defined as coloured, Indian and white to vote separately for racially segregated “houses” of parliament. This proposal was met with widespread resistance.

Poster: Silkscreen, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), Johannesburg, 1984. SAHA Collection: AL2446/147.