District Six Capetown South Africa
The museum in District Six serves as a reminder of the cruelty of apartheid and as a memorial to a neighborhood that had been a place where generations of coloured and Indian Cape town residents lived peacefully for generations.
Photographs by Kate Mura ©
The map showed some of the streets in the neighborhood that was destroyed.
This is part of District 6 that was never used after the mostly colored and Indian people were removed from their homes to make way for whites.
Photographs by Kate Mura ©
The map showed some of the streets in the neighborhood that was destroyed.
This is part of District 6 that was never used after the mostly colored and Indian people were removed from their homes to make way for whites.
posted by Kate | 9:24 PM
1 Comments:
these are great. It was like deja vue seeing the map, the South End museum here has one too, it has a very similar history to district 6
I recently bought a book in a vintage bookstore called "South End as we knew it" written by people who were there at the time of the forced removals, it is a moving, horrifying and fascinating story, and what strikes me most is how they have risen above it and not allowed it to make them bitter.
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