Local Context • 1983 • IV
Imprisoned after robbing nearly thirty banks, ex-cop André Stander escapes from prison together with fellow inmates Lee McCall and Allan Heyl. As The Stander Gang, the three men begin a two-year-long spate of bank robberies. Their story is made into a Hollywood movie in 2003 (directed by Bronwen Hughes).
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.