Assessing sense of place amongst returnees of District Six, Cape Town
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
District Six was a pre-apartheid community destroyed by racialized forced relocations. Under the
Group Areas Act of the apartheid rule, all District Six residents were forcibly relocated and scattered
around the city and elsewhere. The area was obliterated and only places of worship were spared
destruction. An affluent white inner-city suburb was one of the state's plans, but it was never realized
as former residents protested this apartheid development objective. In the wake of the apartheid�s
demise, a land restitution programme was enforced as one way of addressing the country's national
recovery through the operations of the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights, performed
congruently with the Restitution of Land Rights Act (Act 22 of 1994). But this process has been dilatory
and intermittent with respect to District Six, characterised as prolonged experiences of
disappointment and occasional bursts of increased efficiency.
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Apartheid, Segregation, Cape Flats, Group Areas Act, Land Rights Act (Act 22 of 1994)., Poverty, Race