The programmatic challenge is to enhance the remembered past by creating tangible forms of the spirit of the community so that when people return — either to live or to visit — they can experience elements of the profound history of District Six.
About District Six. Donor: Stan Abrahams. District Six Museum believes that that the best tool available for protecting the District Six land is the National Heritage Resources Act of , which makes allowance for the protection of sites of national significance, through declaration. District Six as a National Heritage site. Soudien eds. The struggle for District Six past and present. Exceptions were made only for servants or other employees of residents. The Act only became fully effective after numerous amendments to it in the s which gave the state full powers to forcebly remove property owners.
It was applied mainly to urban areas and led to the destruction of such multiracial communities as Sophiatown in Johannesburg and District Six in Cape Town. It also resulted in the forced removal of more than I20 households overall and the appropriation of their property with only limited compensation. Black people whose living areas in towns were already restricted by the Natives Urban Areas Act, were less affected than Coloureds and Indians, while comparatively few whites were moved.
This Page has its roots in Tourism, and we shall continue to promote and share our colourful and vibrant Heritage, with our fellow South Africans and Tourists. We will not promote any political and racial content. Please enjoy. This is crucial for understanding what it is to be a nation. We need to know how they survived and, more particularly, how they were able to hold onto their dignity and to give their children a sense of possibility for themselves where none seemed available.
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Menu Search. Photos Lerato Maduna. District Six was such a moral symbol of injustice that not even the apartheid government at the peak of its power could simply go in and rebuild the area.
Emer Prof Crain Soudien experienced forced removals in the early s when his family was forced out of Sophiatown and moved to a segregated suburb. CB: Why did the apartheid government target District Six? Forced removals resulted in very many of the deep social challenges we are having to confront today. CB: And why did they not build up the area? CB: Where were the so-called race groups moved to? CB: At a broader level, what was the impact of the removals?
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This call was realised in through the creation of the District Six Museum Foundation, located in a hall on the Zonnebloem Estate. Today, empty patches of land echo silently in parts of the landscape that used to be District Six: a hollow residue of a displaced community.
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