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District Six, or Zonnebloem as it is officially known, is one step closer to being District Six again. The paperwork for the name change for the area near Cape Town’s city centre, made famous by forced evictions during the apartheid era, is now with the Geographical Names Council.

The museum is leading the charge to have the area officially recognised as District Six by the Geographical Names Council. Campaigners have put in the paperwork and made representations to the council. Last month former land reform minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was ordered to appear before the land court, sitting at the Cape Town high court, and explain how the government plans to redevelop District Six. She also had to give reasons for delays in construction. Her argument was that there was just not enough money in government to develop the area effectively and in a short time.

“We want people to come back to District Six; we don’t want them to come back to Zonnebloem. So it was always imagined that the restitution of people, their return, the proclamation of a national heritage site, and the reclaiming of the name District Six should be working in tandem.”

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