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Title: Plotted map of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: Plotted map of District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18026

Title: District Six residents, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18009

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18016

Title: Former District Six landowners demonstrate for return of their land, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Demonstrations
Description: Dispossessed: Former District Six landowners who intend doing a lot more than demonstrating with placards to get their land back. They are to use the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act to petition for its return.
Identifier: islandora:17756

Title: Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

Title: Volkskerk in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: People stood in the doorway of the packed Volkskerk in District Six yesterday to hear the final service.
Identifier: islandora:17996

Title: Sea Point MP in church at District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: MP for Sea Point, and his wife, Joyce, were among the hundreds at a religious service and public meeting at the Holy Cross Church in - Street last night to commemorate the 'death' of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17995

Title: Moravian Church, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Churches, Fires, Fire departments
Description: Veld fire: the historical Moravian Church in District Six looms in the background as a fireman battles flames fanned by a strong south-easter that caused the blaze to race towards the building last night.
Identifier: islandora:14954

Title: District Six residents receive communion, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion
Description: Father Basil Van Rensburg gives Mr Paddy Kavanagh and his wife, Doris, communion at their home in District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17983

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18022

Title: Members of the Ministers Fraternal in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Members of the Ministers Fraternal, standing in a part of District Six that has been cleared by bulldozers, from left: the Rev. Karel August of the Moravian Church, the Rev. John Paulse (Anglican), and the Rev. Basil Van Rensburg of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church.
Identifier: islandora:17991

Title: Ruined house in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Children, Housing
Description: A ruined house in District Six, half open to the sky, is the 'home' in which Mr and Mrs E. Rolfe, seen here with their youngest child Charlene are trying to bring up a family. Mrs Rolfe is expecting another child next month.
Identifier: islandora:17982

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Townships
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18011

Title: District Six resident faces eviction, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The threat of eviction from District Six clouds the Christmas season for Mrs Margaret Gesant, 74, seen here with her granddaughter, Mrs Eileen Europa, who also faces eviction with her five children.
Identifier: islandora:17986

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18015

Title: Former District Six residents, Cape Town
Subject: Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Concerned: Former District Six residents meet in the Lentegeur Civic Centre to discuss plans for the area.
Identifier: islandora:17843

Title: BBC crew filming District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A BBC crew filming in District Six. They are, from left, Mr John Adderley, assistant cameraman, Mr Fred Hamilton, cameraman, Mr Joe Forbes, a member of the Cape Times editorial staff, who showed the team around the area, and Miss Rosalind Erksine, director. The film crew left South Africa yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18005

Title: Final service in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: District Six - Hundreds of people attend the final service.
Identifier: islandora:17994

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18021

Title: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: My land: Abdul Parker - with a letter from the former Commission on Land Allocation, responding to his claim on land in District Six - will fight for land if the Cape Town Community Land Trust tries to claim it.
Identifier: islandora:18002

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