Local Context • 1985 • III
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1985 • III
PW Botha declares a State of Emergency after continuous unrest and a spate of recent sabotage attacks by MK and other anti-government forces. Initially including 36 magisterial districts, it extends to include the entire country by 1986 and is only lifted in 1990.
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.