District Six Museum

District Six in Cape Town is synonymous with forced removals. The area, near the center of the city and the harbor, was named the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. It became a community of "freed slaves, merchants, artisans, laborers, and immigrants". The first forced removals happened in 1901, when black people were moved out. In 1966 District Six was declared a white area in terms of the Group Areas Act and some 60,000 residents had been resettled and their houses flattened by 1982. The District Six Museum "works with the memories of these experiences and with the history of forced removals more generally". Go to the District Six Museum...