The hyper-NIMBY of earlier Cape Town and South Africa


The most controversial of the forced removals occurred in the second half of the 1960s, with the expulsion of 65,000 coloureds from District Six, a vibrant inner-city ward of Cape Town, where whites, many of the slumlords, owned 56% of the property.  Against their will, District Six residents were moved out to the sandy townships of the Cape Flats.  In Johannesburg, the inner-city suburb of Sophiatown, where blacks could own freehold property, was another notorious site of forced removals.  Often long-established community institutions such as churches and schools had to be abandoned.

That is from the very good book by Hermann Giliomee The Afrikaners: A Concise History.




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