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3 unusual facts about District Six


Coloured

For instance, the government relocated Coloured from the multicultural Cape Town area of District Six, which was later bulldozed.

Mannenberg

The producer was Rashid Vally and the recording was made in June 1974 in a studio in Cape Town, "against a backdrop of forced removals as the apartheid government finalised its destruction of District Six and evicted coloured families from homes throughout the city".

Richard Rive

Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.


Malay Camp, Kimberley

The Malay Camp in Kimberley, South Africa, with a history similar to Cape Town's District Six, Johannesburg's Sophiatown and Port Elizabeth's South End, was a cosmopolitan suburb originating in the early days of Kimberley's existence but subject to forced 'slums clearance' after the owner of the land (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd) donated the area to the Kimberley Municipality in 1939.

Ndabeni

By 1881, some of the whites had begun to think the black population in Papendorp and District Six was so sizeable that they "needed to establish an official 'Kafir location' for it..." (Saunders, p. 29).


see also

Paul M. Dorman High School

The school is part of Spartanburg County School District Six.

Richard Rive

Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, both in District Six, and then to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher.