It was an early start today as we were heading for our township tour. We ordered room service breakfast, so we could eat while we got ready in the morning, which came on a cool trolley that turned into a table. Our guide collected us at 8.15am - 15 minutes ahead of schedule! - and, after collecting another 3 groups of people, we set off for the area of Cape Town known as District 6 just before 9. District 6 used to be a lively community of about 55,000 predominantly coloured people. However, in 1966, apartheid ideologues declared District 6 a white group area and the bulldozers moved in to demolish everything apart from about 5 mosques and churches. The coloured people were therefore driven out of the city (initially with the rumours raised that they
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