Crashing waves

District Six Museum and Camps Bay

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June 24th 2007
On Friday, our class took a field trip to the District Six Museum in downtown Cape Town. District Six was a neighborhood in Cape Town during the 1940s-60s that was comprised mostly of immigrants, blacks and coloreds. In 1966, the Nationalist government (who was responsible for apartheid policies) passed the Group Areas Act, which allowed them to relocate blacks and coloreds so that whites could h ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more