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The District Six Museum welcomes the new appointment of Ms Zeenat Parker-Kasker as the Executive Director

By Kouthar Sambo The District Six Museum has welcomed the new appointment of Ms Zeenat Parker-Kasker as the Executive Director. This comes after the annual event held to observe the 58 years since the forced removals in the Cape and its effort to keep the history and memory of those displaced communities. Speaking on VOC's DriveTime show on Monday, Executive Director of District Six Museum Zeenat Patel-Kaskar said the museum […]

today20 February 2024

Local

Refugees fined for occupying areas in CT CBD

A number of foreign nationals sleeping on pavements in the Cape Town CBD have been fined 300 rand each for violating the city's by-laws. Families with their children moved onto the pavement of Albertus street a few weeks ago, after they were removed from Long Market and Burg Streets on Green Market Square. This morning the City embarked on an operation to clean the area around the District Six Museum […]

today22 March 2020

Events

Night walk honours Cape Town’s slaves

The annual “Walk in the Night” will once again take place through the CBD this evening. It marks Emancipation Day on 1 December 1834, when enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. The District Six museum will be honouring the former slave, Lydia Williams and world renowned South African artist, Lionel Davis who was legally freed on December 1, 1834 with the Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night.”  Bonita […]

today30 November 2017

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