Local Context • 1936
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1936
The Representation of Natives Act is passed and coloured voters in the Cape lose their right to vote or own land outside of the designated reserves.
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.