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District 6 residents going back


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After 30 long years of waiting, 108 claimants will return to District Six in the Cape Town City Bowl this week. One of the beneficiaries for the Phase Three development, 100 year-old Shariefa Khan celebrated her birthday in April. Sixty-thousand people were forcibly removed by the apartheid government as the area was declared a whites' only, 55 years ago. Tanya Krause reports...

Guest: Zahrah Nordien – Chairperson of the District 6 Working Committee (She has many family members who are part of the claimants and will give personal and family history of District 6)

Guest: Karen Breytenbach – Spokesperson for the District 6 Working Committee (Will talk more on the government dealings and being part of the campaign to go back to District 6)

Guest: Auntie Nadiema – Daughter of 100-year-old Mrs Khan who is in the opening PKG)

Guest: Gamza Sydow – Claimant, but not on this batch that’s getting houses now because he is 65 and there are many who are older than him
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