Local Context • 1886
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1886
The central protagonist of the 'numbers' gang mythologies that persist in South African prisons to today, Nongoloza, begins his crime career after his employer holds him liable for the loss of a horse.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.