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District Six 

The government, in the sixties, decided under the Group Areas Act that District Six was to be designated a white area and would be cleared and rebuilt. In the ensuing mayhem the hapless residents watched their homes being demolished and families split up on racial grounds. The museum and area stand as a memorial to all those abused by the apartheid system. The area was never significantly redeveloped.

The next part of the tour was not for the faint hearted. It was my first eye to eye contact with people living in absolute desperate and impoverished conditions. I found it totally daunting and upsetting,  struggling to fight back the tears, ashamed that these people were living in such squalor and I was doing nothing to help them. We paused at a small kindergarten school and I snapped a photo of the children playing. They all turned to wave at me with bright smiles on their faces.

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Daluka - Kindergarten school