Fifty-one years since the declaration of District Six a White Group Area ‘DISTRICT SIX: BIG SHAKE-UP IN PLANS FOR CITY. Proclamation a shock’ read the headlines of The Cape Argus City Late edition on Friday, February 11 in 1966. The article, written by a staff...
#D6HeritageSite #D6NationalHeritageSite Why a National Heritage Site? After the dramatic announcement on 11 February 1966 of the declaration of District Six as a white group area, a number of protest organisations and committees grew, which included the District Six...
USAKOS – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The old location albums, 1920’s-1960 The panel discussion will interrogate some of the often contentious issues confronting photographers and researchers who work with communities facing despair of one kind or another. It is...
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,...
To end off the Africa World Documentary Film Festival week, District Six Museum and UWC Education Department will host a day of films by women film makers: South Africans – Elise Fernandez, Nadine Cloete, Esley Philander; Haitian-American Rachelle Salnave; and...
