1961
Armed struggle begins with the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe; South Africa leaves the Commonwealth; grandfather commits suicide

1962
Sabotage Act

1963
3 The Rivonia Trial- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment

1965
Malcolm X assassinated

1967
Che Guevara dies in combat; Terrorism Act

1968
Born in May; Marcel Duchamp dies; Martin Luther King assassinated; Protests at the Venice Biennale- last South African participation until 1993; riots in Paris

1969
Sharon Tate murdered

1972
Andreas Baader arrested and later commits suicide; parents divorce- father gets custody; terrorist act-Munich Olympic Games; begin school at Rondebult Primary School

1973
United Nations declares Apartheid a crime against humanity

1975
Clement Greenberg visits South Africa

1976
Soweto Riots; fail Nothern Sotho at school

1977
Stephen Biko dies in detention

1979
Sid Vicious commits suicide

1982
hospitalized for meningitis

1983
car bomb, Pretoria; run away from home

1984
hospitalized after car crash

1985
State of Emergency declared in 36 magisterial districts; lose my virginity; Carl Andre charged with the murder of Ana Mendieta

1986
Arrested for 'attending an illegal gathering'; car bomb (Durban)

1987
2 attempted suicides; car bomb (Johannesburg)

1988
graduate BA (FA) Wits University; publicly refuse to serve in the South African Defense Force (SADF); car bomb (Johannesburg)

1989
forced into exile

1990
application to Whitney Independent Studies Programme rejected; application to Jan van Eyck Academy rejected; return to South Africa after Mandela's release from jail

1991
fired from Newtown Galleries (Johannesburg); Gulf War

1992
second application to Whitney Independent Studies Programme rejected; retrenched and banned from Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg); car bomb, Uffizi Museum (Florence); application for a Fulbright Scholarship rejected

1993
IRA car bomb (London); car bomb (World Trade Center, New York); 'The New Patron' rejected for Vita Art Now; 72 members of Branch Davidian die in Waco, Texas; urinated into Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' (Palazzo Grazzi, Venice)

1994
Kurt Cobain commits suicide; car bomb (Johannesburg); receive three death threats; Guy Debord commits suicide

1995
Sarin Gas attacks on Tokyo Underground; car bomb (Oklahoma City); metro bomb (Paris); 'One Minute of Silence' rejected from Volkskas Atelier Competition; evicted from Bag Factory Studios (Johannesburg); three works censored by Vita Art Now (Johannesburg Art Gallery); 'Title Withheld (Hijack)' rejected from Kwanngju Biennale; Christmas card design rejected by Villa Arson; Jean Clair cancels 'Aperto' exhibition at Venice Biennale

1996
rejected from Sydney Biennale; 'Title Withheld' (score) rejected from Haus der Kulturen der Welt; TWA Flight 800 explodes; bomb blast (Atlanta Olympic Games); cultural weapons banned in South Africa