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My house was number 41 Clifton Street," said Cassiem Morris, his voice catching as he points to where his Cape Town home was ... under apartheid, District 6 has seen its original name restored ...
During the first half of the 20th century, this part of town was home to one tenth of the city's population. But in 1966 when apartheid ... Cape Town's history (and South Africa) without District ...
Take an intimate look at a city reinventing itself while putting apartheid behind it. Cape Town is a nexus of cultures ... 60,000 residents of District 6, a mixed race neighborhood, were ordered ...
Yet District 9 isn't necessarily the metaphor everyone thinks it is. Of course it's about apartheid and segregation, but to South Africans it's also about Cape Town's now-defunct District Six ...
In a city still grappling with the scars of apartheid ... on 10 February at 6 pm and at the District 6 Museum (Cape Town) on 11 February at 2 pm. (Booking is essential for both these screenings ...
These narratives are subverted in an exhibition currently on display at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town ... six years before apartheid was formally established, and died in ...
Cape Town - The Cape Peninsula University of Technology says it is pressing on with the building of a residence that encroaches on historic Hanover Street, despite strenuous objections from the ...
The chairperson of Cape Town's District ... He began his District 6 work in earnest in his early 50s and worked mostly without earning a salary and late into the night. The statement from the ...
My house was number 41 Clifton Street," said Cassiem Morris, his voice catching as he points to where his Cape Town home was razed to enforce apartheid. Morris, of Malay origin, took his first baby ...
Noor Ebrahim used to live in Cape Town's District Six. He remembers the day the bulldozers came. "I was standing right there when they demolished my home in front of me," he told DW. 50 years ago ...