Local Context • 1994 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Context • 1994 • II
Ken Oosterbroek, a member of the Bang-Bang Club, is killed in the crossfire between militant ANC supporters and National Peacekeeping Force soldiers in the Tokoza township of Johannesburg. Another member, Kevin Carter, commits suicide in July.
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.