Local Context • 1963 • II
MK leadership are arrested at their Liliesleaf Farm headquarters. At the subsequent Rivonia Trial, the prosecution argues for the death sentence. Eight of the trialists (Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Denis Goldberg, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Andrew Mlangeni) are sentenced to life imprisonment.
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.