Purple color text on a building in South Africa. Digital image provider unknown.
Who/what: When thousands of antiapartheid activists took to the streets in Cape Town four days before parliamentary elections, police turned a water cannon with purple dye on them in an effort to halt the demonstrations and mark the protesters for identification and arrest. The plan backfired, however, when one protester hijacked the nozzle from a police officer and sprayed office buildings and the local headquarters of the ruling National Party.
Where/when: In Cape Town, South Africa in 1989. Protestors advocated for a change in government.
Why: Antiapartheid activists wanted to pressure supporters of apartheid four days before the election. What started out as a peaceful protest, then turned into many arrests of the protestors as well as property walls be spread with purple paint. One day after the march, there was text on a government building saying, "The purple shall govern" meaning, "The people shall govern".
Works Cited:
"The Purple Rain Protest". Web. 07 Feb 2016. Retrieved from: http://sites.duke.edu/writing101_09_s2014/2014/01/16/the-purple-rain-protest-christina-gibbons/
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