Local Context • 1963 • I
Formation of group and magazine Sestiger. The Sestigers, or writers of the 1960s (recalling the Dertigers of the 1930s), adapt conventional literary genres in an attempt to do for prose what the Dertigers did for poetry. André P Brink, Etienne Leroux, Ingrid Jonker and others tackle difficult subjects largely uncharted within official Afrikaaner culture, such as sex, atheism, sexism and racism.
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.