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Title: District Six resident, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Doris Kavanagh ... "I don't know why they should pull the building down. It's so solid you can't knock a nail in the walls."
Identifier: islandora:17992

Title: Cathedral of 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: Top: St Mark's Anglican Church stands steadfast on the hill in District Six. A symbol of tradition for some, the church was once called the "Cathedral of District Six" and the "small Vatican", and still holds High Mass three times a month. Here, the congregation streams down the hill after a Sunday morning service. Many once lived in the now bare land of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17989

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: St Mark's Church, and its rector, 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: Above: The rector of St Mark's, The Rev. Stanley Gray, stands before his church in this, the brick-strewn landscape of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:18000

Title: Crowd outside St Mark's 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: Unveiling: Part of the crowd outside St Mark's Church in District Six before the unveiling of the plaque.
Identifier: islandora:17997

Title: Last shopkeeper in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mr M.C. Kader will be the last shopkeeper in District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17998

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: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: Derelict land: Abdul Ebrahim hopes to reclaim five large undeveloped plots in District Six where his family once lived.
Identifier: islandora:18004

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: Moravian 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: Mother Church ... This neo-classical 1886 basilica in District Six, with its bell tower and pedimented portica resting on three Dorian pillars, is the mother church of the Moravian Bretheren in the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17993

Title: Former District Six residents, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: Nostalgic: Community worker, Tahir Levy, leads former residents of District Six on a nostalgic visit through a flattened area near Aspeling Street mosque.
Identifier: islandora:18003

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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