Browsing by Subject "District Six"
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Assessing sense of place amongst returnees of District Six, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)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 ... -
Current manifestation of trauma experienced during forced removals under apartheid: interviews with a former "Vlakte" inhabitant
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Much has been researched in South Africa about the trauma of losing one's home, one's community and rebuilding one's life in a new environment. Several books have been published tracking the lives of the forcibly removed ... -
Frameworks of representation: A design history of the District Six Museum in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central ... -
From family business to public museum: the transformation of the sacks futeran buildings into the homecoming centre of the district six Museum
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Through a grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation the District Six Museum Foundation Trust purchased the Sacks Futeran buildings in 2002 with a view to creating new spaces of engagement that worked with exhibitions, ... -
The raison d'etre of the Muslim mission primary school in Cape Town and environs from 1860 to 1980 with special reference to the role of Dr A. Abdurahman in the modernisation of Islam-oriented schools
(University of the Western Cape, 1986)This d~ssertation concerns the modernisation of Islam-oriented schooling in Cape Town and environs whereby Muslim Mission Primary Schools emerge as a socio-cultural compromise between community needs and State school ... -
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)