Local Context • 1983 • III
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1983 • III
The government introduces the 1983 constitution and the tricameral parliament. The offer is an empty concession and excludes black South Africans entirely – less than 20% of coloured and Indian voters bother to vote in the 1984 elections.
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.