Workers and board member of the District Six Museum in Cape Town who celebrated its 30th anniversary. The museum plays a vital role in recording and understanding the community that lived in District Six before people were forcibly removed to areas on the Cape Flats. (Photo: Suné Payne)
By Suné Payne – 18 Deember 2024
How do you keep an independent museum going for 30 years? The District Six Museum in Cape Town might have an answer: through an understanding of the community they know and love. And donations of course.
The community museum.” That’s how the District Six Museum is described by its director Chrischene Julius. The museum, located in the Cape Town CBD, is a living monument to the people of District Six, who were forcibly removed during apartheid..