Title: Lost communities, living memories : remembering forced removals in Cape Town /
Authors: Field, Sean; Centre for Popular Memory (University of Cape Town)
Publisher: D. Philip,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Forced migration South Africa Cape Town.; Colored people (South Africa) Relocation; Apartheid South Africa; Colored people (South Africa) Relocation South Africa Cape Town History; Forced migration South Africa Cape Town History; Apartheid South Africa Cape Town.; Colored people (South Africa) South Africa Cape Town Relocation History; District Six (Cape Town, South Africa); Cape Town (South Africa) Social conditions.; Cape Town (South Africa) Race relations.; Cape Town (South Africa) Social conditions; Cape Town (South Africa) Race relations History
Contents: Foreword / Vincent Kolbe -- Preface / Sean Field -- Oral histories of forced removals / Sean Field -- Mapping Cape Town : from slavery to apartheid / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Windermere : squatters, slumyards and removals, 1920s to 1960s / Sean Field -- 'Everyone had their differences but there was always comradeship' : Tramway Road, Sea Point, 1920s to 1961 / Michele Paulse -- 'Ja! So was District Six! But it was a beautiful place' : oral histories, memory and identity / Felicity Swanson and Jane Harries -- 'It changed everybody's lives' : the Simon's Town group areas removals / Albert Thomas -- 'Mense van die Vlak' : community and forced removals in Lower Claremont / Felicity Swanson -- 'I dream of our old house, you see there are things that can never go away' : memory, restitution and democracy / Sean Field -- Appendix : oral history projects / Sean Field.