Local Context • 1926 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Context • 1926 • II
The Immorality Act No. 5 is passed by parliament, effectively outlawing extra-marital intercourse between blacks and whites. The act is extended in 1950 to include coloureds and Asians.
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.