2016.44.1.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Salt shaker depicting Frederik Willem de Klerk.

Long description

Pepper shaker depicting Nelson Mandela. The pepper shaker is a caricature of South African politician Frederik Willem de Klerk. The salt shaker is made from pottery and from a mould or cast. De Klerk has been painted with white hair and wearing a red jacket, white shirt and green tie. There is a hole in the bottom of the shaker that has been plugged with a cork. There is a gold sticker stuck to the back of the shaker printed in black ink with Regd. BAKER STREET Design. The pepper shaker is part of a set with a salt shaker depicting Nelson Mandela [see 2016.44.1 .1] in souvenir box [see 2016.44.1 .3]. [FB 15/8/2016]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

Johhannesburg Gauteng Bryanston

Person

Maker Baker Street Originals

Field collector John Pinfold

PRM source John Pinfold

Date / Period

Date made: 1994

Date collected

1994

Acquisition information

Donated: 15/10/2015

Materials and processes

Material Pigment, Material Pottery, Material Cork Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Glue, Process Moulded, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Plugged, Process Printed, Process Glued

Dimensions

Height: max 115 mm approx, Width: max 100 mm approx

Object numbers

Accession number: 2016.44.1.2

Research and responses

Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed the history of South Africa. It paved the way towards a new democratic dispensation and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in the country were going to the polls to vote for a government of their choice. Nineteen political parties participated and twenty-two million people voted. The election took place in a festive atmosphere, contrary to fears of political violence. The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 62.65 % of the vote. The National Party (NP) received 20.39 %, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 10.54 %, Freedom Front (FF) 2.2 %, Democratic Party (DP) 1.7 %, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) 1.2 % and the African Christian Democratic Party 0.5 %. Although the ANC gained a majority vote, they formed the Government of National Unity, headed by the ANC’s Nelson Mandela who became the first black President of the country. (source http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/south-africas-first-democratic-elections) [FB 15/8/2016]

Frederik Willem de Klerk is a South African politician who served as the country's State President from September 1989 to May 1994. He was the seventh and last head of state of South Africa under the apartheid era. De Klerk was also leader of the National Party (which later became the New National Party) from February 1989 to September 1997. De Klerk helped to broker the end of apartheid, South Africa's policies of racial segregation and discrimination, and supported the transformation of South Africa into a non-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens having equal voting and other rights. Controversially he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid. [FB 15/8/2016]

On 17th July 2014 a number of unusual Mandela memorabilia went on sale in Johannesburg in an auction held by the auction house Savo Tufegdzic of the Stephan Welz & Co. included in the sale were an identical set of Mandela and De Klerk cruets. (see http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2014/07/16/kitsch-mandela-mementos-to-go-under-the-hammer and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28348853) [FB 15/8/2016]

Baker Street trading the manufacturers of the cruet sets was established in 1986 and through the years has manufactured various items for the home and garden including the now famous and collectable cruet sets of South African political figures. The company are still manufacturing goods but no longer produce the cruet sets. (http://www.street.co.za/index.html) [FB 15/8/2016]

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