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A vertical propaganda poster features a central illustration of a man in a brown military uniform, shown from the waist up. He is positioned facing slightly to the left with his mouth open as if shouting or singing. He holds a rifle with a fixed bayonet vertically in front of him. Behind him, a large flag with horizontal stripes of light red, white, and blue—the 1928 version of the South African national flag—waves against a pale background. The bottom third of the poster consists of a black rectangular block containing the hand-drawn, slanted white text "Let's Go... SOUTH AFRICA!" with the first two words in cursive and the country name in bold, uppercase letters.

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Title
Let's go...South Africa!
Creator
Pretoria: Printed B.P.W. & Moibile Map Printing Coy., publisher
Published
South Africa, 1942
Full Collection Name
British and British Commonwealth war posters from the Second World war, circa 1939-circa 1945
Project Name
War Posters
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 2005.171:099--F
Subject (Topic)
Patriotism
Propaganda (Anti-German, Anti-Japanese, Anti-Italian)
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Posters
Type
Image
Extent
1 print (poster);;94 x 62 cm
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
South African Legation Washington, D.C. '43 on verso
Part of: British and British Commonwealth war posters from the Second World war
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Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, February 2026 .

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