‘From where I am sitting’: Supper Club with Trevor Jones
The 2016 series of District Six Museum ‘Tafel Conversations’ is called ‘From where I am sitting.’ Thursday 31 March 2016: ‘From where I am sitting’: supper and conversation with Trevor Jones As a young boy in District Six, Trevor Jones spent many hours in the local...
USAKOS – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The old location albums, 1920’s-1960
This exhibition is a mobile version of the one housed at the Usakos Municipal Building, Namibia. It will open on Tuesday, 16 February at the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, followed by a walk-about and panel discussion on Saturday, 20thFebruary (The politics,...
Albie Sachs speaks at the Lydia William’s Centre for Memory
11 February 1966: District Six was declared a white area… Join the District Six Museum, the community it works with and friends for words of reflection by our guest speaker, ALBIE SACHS, former Constitutional Court Judge. This will form part of the Interfaith...
PRESS RELEASE: District Six Museum Remembers
This year, the proceedings cannot continue in the same manner due to the CPUT construction which currently surrounds it. CPUT has been approached to permit access to the cairn which lies cordoned off in the heart of the building site. Stones will be laid, but the performative ritual around the cairn will not be possible because of the intrusion of the building. This will be the first time that the stone laying will take place under these circumstances and it should provide some clues as to the future of the cairn. The day will be concluded with an interfaith service at the Lydia Williams Centre of Memory. Albie Sachs, former Constitutional Court Judge and anti-apartheid activist, will be the guest speaker for the evening.