THE SPIRIT OF DISTRICT SIX Photographs By Cloete Breytenbach. Text By Brian Barrow. Human & Rousseau, Cape Town Pretoria Johannesburg. First published in 1997. This book is a second edition from 2003. ISBN 0798143878. Slipped into the book is a color flyer from the District Six Museum. 64 PAGES, Illustrations are in black & white. Photographs and text about the energy and life within District Six, a Cape Town neighbourhood which was later destroyed by the apartheid government. Hardcover book measures approx. 11 ¾" x 9 ¼".

The Spirit of District Six

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Barrow, Brian

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Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd

This beautiful book shows poignant images from Breytenbach’s collection of District Six during the 1970s before the area was dramatically demolished by the apartheid government. It is an historical record about the inhabitants and their surroundings of that time and was compiled over a period of five years.The Cape Town area known as District Six (so called for its geographic position on the municipal map of the city) developed into a dense residential area close to the centre of Cape Town during the second part of the nineteenth century.Home to a diverse community with a wide range of historical origins, neglect on the part of landlords and local authorities led to the area becoming rundown. The government repeatedly directed requests to the city council and the landlords – most of whom were white and not residing in the area – to upgrade what was fast becoming a slum on the doorstep of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. On 11 February 1966, the government declared District Six a white area under the Group Areas Act, and the wholesale removal of the inhabitants was started – mainly to areas away from the city. This process took fifteen years and some 60 000 people were removed.

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