Local Context • 1910
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1910
The Union of South Africa, a self-governing territory within the British Empire governed by the South African Party (SAP), is formed. The first constitution of South Africa enfranchises white men. The right is extended to a select few non-white men in the Cape Province (now the Western Cape).
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.