District Six - Kanaldorp

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  • Sandra Prosalendis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3602

Abstract

DECEMBER 1996: Two years after its opening, the District Six Museum stands in Buitenkant Street in all its shabby splendour. People jostle in and out of the entrance, alongside the makeshift graffiti-style sign; foreign and local tourists to Cape Town brush shoulders with ex-residents, a mixture as heterogeneous as the spirit that the museum celebrates. Inside, to a background of impromptu piano recitals, three exhibitions compete for space. An air offestivity reigns as oldfriends meet and rediscover their past, and yet there is still a sense of repose and remembrance that lingers in the museum, a legacy of the building's past roles as church, school, community centre andpolitical sanctuary. 

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