Local Context • 1941
NP van Wyk Louw publishes Raka, a lengthy rhymed study of evil. Van Wyk Louw is part of the group of Afrikaans writers that came to be known as the Dertigers (writers of the 1930s) who distributed and infuriated the ultra-conservative gatekeepers of Afrikaans with their experimental and rebellious new forms.
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.