Local Context • 1924 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Context • 1924 • II
The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) is formed under the guidance of Leo Marquard. Students from the 'native' college at Fort Hare are admitted in 1945 as members, confirming the commitment to non-racialism after a period of indecision.
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.