Joe Schaffers, whose family was evicted from District Six under apartheid, was at the District Six Museum to mark its 30th birthday. (Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp)
Matthew Hirsch – 18 December 2024
Joe Schaffers was born in District Six in Cape Town in 1939 and lived there for nearly 30 years before his family and thousands of others were forced out in the 1960s under the Group Areas Act.
On Saturday, Schaffers, now an educator at the District Six Museum, was there to celebrate the museum’s 30th birthday, GroundUp reported…