van riebeeck festival - chamber of mines 1952

Double Sleeve,  two booklets,  original, "As a Matter of ... Fact ' & "Going Down", Transvaal Chamber of Mines, condition: very good. 

This sleeve was disseminated at the Gold Mining Industry's Pavillion at the Van Riebeeck Festival Fair in 1952.

The Van Riebeeck Festival of 1952 was a major three-month-long celebration in Cape Town to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in South Africa, a pivotal moment for the white colonial community. Organized by the apartheid-era National Party government, the festival aimed to foster a sense of unity among white South Africans and showcase the nation's colonial past and progress. However, the festival also became a focal point for African and Coloured resistance movements, which used it to launch campaigns against the apartheid system, framing Van Riebeeck as a symbol of white domination.