District six
55 years after forced removals, hope is blooming for District Six claimants
After one of the most callous dispossessions of apartheid, more than 100 District Six claimants will soon be able to return to the place they once called home.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Places of memory and a post-COVID reckoning
With the news that the future of the District Six Museum is in peril, Judith February says that within our deeply divided and scarred society, it’s imperative to ask what matters to us.
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CoCT to embark on online public engagements about future of District Six
The city is starting a database for people who want to be part of the rebuilding process that would be open to claimants, residents, civic, and NPOs and anyone else with an interest in the project.
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Comedian Soli Philander expected to appear in court today
Philander was apprehended on Saturday after he took to social media where he alleged that a young girl was living with a paedophile in a District Six Community Centre.
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De Lille: No forced removals in SA ever again
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille was addressing claimants at a commemoration of the District Six forced removals at the Castle of Good Hope at the weekend.
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Dan Plato assures District Six claimants they will be relocated
Plato says the relocation will be done in a smooth and orderly manner.
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De Lille tells District Six claimants there will be no more delays
District Six residents who were forcibly removed from their homes under the then Group Areas Act have come to hear plans to move them back to the area.
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Long road home for Cape Town's apartheid dispossessed
South Africa's white minority government in 1966 listed District 6 as a "white" area under its racial segregation policy. Most residents were forcibly moved because they were black or mixed-race and bulldozers destroyed their homes.
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District 6 return no longer a pipe dream - Ajam
The District Six Working Committee met with claimants over the weekend to present Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza's plan for the redevelopment of the area.
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District Six working comm provides feedback on restitution plan
In December, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza submitted a plan on the redevelopment of District Six to the Land Claims Court for residents who lodged claims between 1994 and 1998.
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Renaming of Zonnebloem area to District Six approved
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced this week the renaming of the Cape Town community has been approved.
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Lawyers for District Six claimants studying plan for redevelopment
Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza on Tuesday submitted the plan to the Land Claims Court.
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Royal treats: Harry, Meghan show CT their dance moves, Archie meets the Tutus
The couple, with their newborn Archie, started their African tour in Cape Town and we’ve picked our favourite moments of their visit thus far.
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D6 land claimants' 'dignity restored' after street name change
Some District Six land claimants said that the day Keizergracht Street was changed back to its original name was one they would never forget.
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District Six’s Keizersgracht Street goes back to its original name
After a ceremony and an official unveiling earlier on Tuesday, it's now called Hanover Street; the name it bore before forced removals in the 1960s during apartheid.
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Nkoana-Mashabane applies for leave to appeal D6 cost order
A costs order was issued against former Land Reform Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane earlier this month.
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D6 community hails CoCT backing for Keizersgracht Street name change
Changing the name back to Hanover Street has been approved by the City of Cape Town. The name change was requested by the District Six Working Committee last June.
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CT mayor hopes Keizersgracht Street name change eases land claimants' pain
The City of Cape Town received an overwhelming response from residents who were in favour of changing the name of Keizersgracht Street in the Cape Town CBD to Hanover Street.
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City of Cape Town to host its first middle distance triathlon
This is one of only a handful of point-to-point events in the country, where the start and finish are in two different locations.
