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No national cadastre exists, making land ownership claims speculative.Ingonyama Trust and Bantustans complicate land ...
Streets in historic District ... to the Cape Flats, over 25 kilometres away, after the apartheid government declared District Six a whites-only area under the Group Areas Act of 1950. Plato said the ...
Slave Route Challenge, set for 1 June 2025, will once again transform Cape Town’s streets into a moving tribute to the city’s painful past and resilient spirit. Organised by Ithuba Sports, the event ...
Every year, southern right whales make the trip from Antarctica to the coast of South Africa to mate and calve. Seeing them up close is an astonishing sight, a real tonic for the mind and spirit.
"CPUT [Cape Peninsula University of Technology] took up half of District Six. Then there were private ... large portions of land were taken during the apartheid era, not all of the land or homes ...
Jonny Dymond presents from the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town’s District Six, a place where a multi-race community is returning after forced eviction during the apartheid years. He is joined by ...
High rents have made living in Cape unaffordable, and, some say, reinforced Cape Town's apartheid-era segregation ... puts on fiery display during latest eruption 6 questions you should never ...
In the 1960s and ‘70s, during apartheid ... of the history and culture of Cape Town, which is especially meaningful with added context from the District Six Museum. As travelers, it’s ...
I saw her in a museum of displaced people, in a neighbourhood in Cape Town where the downtown starts to melt into the desolate. The desolation in District Six is the subject of ... nation as it ...
After withstanding apartheid forced ... returning residents of District Six,” the families state in court papers opposing the eviction application. The City of Cape Town, which is a respondent ...
Original District Six cottages now face the threat of developer's bulldozers A row of Victorian cottages in District Six survived apartheid ... The City of Cape Town, which is a respondent in ...