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Local Context • 1977 • III
Shared by Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk Date shared 4 August 2022 Projects Source Publication

Local Context • 1977 • III
On August 21, 1977, Steve Biko is arrested under the Terrorism Act of 1967. He dies on September 12 in police custody.

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.

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