Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.194.39
Object Name
Badge
Title
Rio Tinto Ztinkz!
Place
Namibia
People
Rio Tinto Zinc
Date
1990s?
Description
Round white badge, "Rio Tinto Ztinkz!" in black text. Rio Tinto Zinc is a global mining company which anti-apartheid activists boycotted and protestedin the 1980s due to exploitative working practices in Namibia, under South African occupation. The uranium mined in Namibia became central to the British Trident nuclear programme, also leading to protests from the peace movement.
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