Local Context • 1950 • III
The Population Registration Act classifies all South African citizens into designated race groups, some of which are then subdivided into further categories ('Xhosa' or 'Zulu', 'Malay' or 'Griqua'). The Race Classification Board, infamous for its absurd testing procedures, is set up to deal with ambiguous cases.
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.