Local Context • 1946 • III
The Fagan Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the government, finds the idea of total segregation between race groups to be entirely impractical and suggests the integration of black labourers as a permanent rather than migrant population in urban areas. The HNP rejects the findings of the commission entirely and instead proposes a policy of apartheid. The policy suggests the complete economic and political segregation of race groups in order to facilitate separate development.
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.