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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: Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1993
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents Reggie Benjamin, left, and Kenneth Jacobs outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act. Tomorrow a special service at the church will be dedicated to the residents.
Identifier: islandora:17324

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: Family sits outside their house in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15609

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: Couple in convenience store who were told to move out, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Convenience stores, Stores, Retail, Forced removals (South Africa), Historic districts, ,
Description: Mr Mohamed Hoosain and his wife Amina - they have been warned by a Cape Town magistrate that their family must move out of their property in all-White Loader Street by July 30.
Identifier: islandora:15210

Title: Modderdam Road forced removal, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, was destroyed by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16835

Title: Group of people sit on back of truck with their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: New Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:15525

Title: Man speaks to crowd facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Agricultural laborers, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Mr E.M. ('Babs') Essop, acting chairman of the Athlone and District Management Committee (centre), addressed families facing eviction at a farm in Phillipi today.
Identifier: islandora:15816

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: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Anti-apartheid activists, Forced removals (South Africa), Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16058

Title: Security forces, Modderdam Road forced removal, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Police and dogs out in force during the bulldozing of Modderdam Road squatter camp
Identifier: islandora:16837

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: Man kneels next to the grave of his son, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Relocation, Agriculture, Demonstrations, ,
Description: A white Phillipi farmer has vowed to barricade himself, his wife and two children inside his farmhouse to protect their property and the grave of his infant son from Department of Community Development bulldozers. For Mr Derek Galloway, of the farm Reiersvlei, could soon become a victim of the Group Areas Act. / Mr Galloway at the gravesite of his child on the farm at Philippi.
Identifier: islandora:15820

Title: Bloemhof resident, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Esther Feder and her family have lived at Bloemhof for generations. With her is her great granddaughter, Rene, 5.
Identifier: islandora:17985

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: Family facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Members of one of the eight families facing eviction on Friday stand outside their house on a Noordhoek farm yesterday. They are Mr Ronald Corker and his wife Edith and their grandchildren, from left, Fabian, 2, Lucia, 6, Patricia, 7, Bernadette, 11, and Sean, 10.
Identifier: islandora:15568

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

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