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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 ...
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.
District Six was ... evicted from District Six, while Andreasen is a photographer. Works they have created so far were shown during Design Week South Africa at Cape Town gallery Demo Projects ...
One Cape Town district managed to clinch ... These streets border what was once District Six, a multi-racial suburb razed during apartheid. That sense of history pervades the area today, making ...
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 ...
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 ... de Klerk abandons those policies and repeals the laws underpinning apartheid, the battle over District Six rages on. The Group Areas Act will end ...
It was one of apartheid's most notorious travesties, for its symbolism as much as its scale. A quarter century ago bulldozers levelled District Six, a vibrant Cape Town quarter whose multi-racial ...
before their forced removal by the apartheid regime. "This is another milestone in restoring District Six after the Cape Town city council approved the name change of Keizergracht to the original ...
Cape Town's District Six Julia Jaki 02/10/2016 February 10, 2016 Half a century ago, South Africa's apartheid regime declared Cape Town's District Six a white-only area.