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Title: Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The battered 101 year old Moravian Chapel in what was District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17320

Title: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town after the demolition of District Six (foreground), showing the Castle, railways and freeways into Cape Town, and Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:17024

Title: District Six resident faces eviction, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: District Six mother Mrs J. Hendricks with two of her three children in the converted garage for which she has been paying R5 a month for the past five years. She now faces an eviction order.
Identifier: islandora:17977

Title: Confined to bed since move from District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Bontheuwel (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mr Christian Smith, 87, who has been confined to his bed since his move from District Six to Bonteheuwel four months ago.
Identifier: islandora:17978

Title: Family home, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: This windowless room is a family's home. The mother smiles up from her cooking, cheerful in spite of her modest surroundings.
Identifier: islandora:18006

Title: Plaque about District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination, Christianity
Description: Plaque at Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17338

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: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town during the demolition of District Six (foreground).
Identifier: islandora:17026

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: First Coloured family in "new" District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Relocation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Coming home: An elated Isgak and Mina Daniels with their children, Shanazz and Yusuf - the first coloured family to buy a home in the "new" District Six - and given the keys to their three-bedroomed duplex by Mr Arthur Quinton, managing director of the developers, Leisure Development Company.
Identifier: islandora:17990

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

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