Kanaladorp – District Six.

In 1966 the district which started its existence as home to freed slaves and which grew into a multifunctional urban residential sprawl by the end of the 1940′2, the district which was home to poets, stevedores, doctors, gangsters, choristers, domestic maids, wash women, jazz musicians, crooners, noisy children and quiet ones, moffies, crane operators, opera singers and councilors, that district whose very existence posed a threat to the grand apartheid machinations of the National Party and the city fathers in the late 1950’s and which was situated on a prime piece of urban real estate,…..was declared a white residential area and cleared of its inhabitants over the next 16 years.

(VALMONT LAYNE)