Cultural relations between Switzerland and South Africa, 1948–1994
The relationship between Switzerland and apartheid South Africa might have been dominated by gold and diamonds, but it was in the arts that some of the most complex interactions occurred. On an official level, exhibitions, orchestra tours and visiting lecturers served to bolster large-scale business interests; but there were also innumerable instances of individual artistic contact across the colour bar. This multi-ethnic, multilingual project will conduct the first-ever investigation of cultural relations between Switzerland and South Africa up to the end of apartheid.
Picture: Various novels and plays by Swiss authors were translated into Afrikaans during the Apartheid era (Book cover).