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District Six Museum
P.O. Box 10176
Caledon Square
Cape Town 7905
South Africa
Tel: 27-21-461-4735
Fax: 27-21-461-8745
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District Six Museum
For over a century, District Six had been a bustling Cape Town neighborhood. Then in 1966, as part of a policy of apartheid, the racist government of South Africa declared it a whites-only area. Homes and businesses were bulldozed, and 60,000 residents displaced to faraway tract houses on barren flats, far from family and friends.
Former neighbors and friends were subdivided further into segregated ethnic groups: “Cape Coloreds,” “Cape Malays,” and “Indians.” Many never saw each other again.
Mission
The District Six Museum is dedicated to ensuring that the history and memory of forced removals in South Africa will endure, and that the process of remembering will challenge all forms of social oppression.
