Of course it's about apartheid and segregation, but to South Africans it's also about Cape Town's now-defunct District Six, and the real-life slums that rose up when it was dismantled.

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 ...

South African architecture firm The MAAK has worked with artists Zayaan Khan and Kent Andreasen to develop a historically sensitive approach to building in District ... Six – a contentious Cape ...

But in 1966 when apartheid was in full swing ... "You cannot understand Cape Town's history (and South Africa) without District 6 as a reference point, and this museum tells its history with ...

A sad reminder of the once lively District Six community before apartheid. (Gallo ... This authority lies with the City of Cape Town, which is responsible for zoning and approving building ...

Until the 1960s District Six was Cape Town's most vibrant quarter ... Its diversity represented everything apartheid opposed. In 1966 the area was declared "whites only" under the hated Group ...

On one corner is a bagel shop; on the other a barber. Skyscrapers, offices, manicured public parks and increasingly expensive apartments are seconds from this hipster enclave. Yet, just one block ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Naz Ebrahim ... the Group Areas Act of 1966 and declared the section of town known as District Six a “white group area.” The neighborhood was flattened by ...

Cape Town - The City of Cape Town wants to engage with the people of District Six on what the neighbourhood will look like in the future as the plan to redevelop the area gains pace. It is ...

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 ...