Venice Biennale: Hanging our history

This year's South African pavilion at the Venice Biennale was, like most before it, born amid controversy. This time it was because of the Department of Arts and Culture's tardiness in appointing curators. The department didn't appoint anyone until last month.When it finally did make an appointment - architect Jeremy Rose and Christopher Till, director of the Apartheid Museum - it left them with "literally three-and-a-half weeks" to put together the exhibition.