Local Context • 1922
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Local Context • 1922
White mine workers in Johannesburg strike against the employment of black labourers in positions formerly reserved for whites. The strike is crushed by the government and more embittered white workers lose their jobs.
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.