THE VOTERS: ‘I long to return to District Six’

from her home, right next to Philip Kgosana Drive in Cape Town, one of the busiest roads in the CBD, a first-floor flat with a flight of purple-painted stairs only a metre wide.share the two bedroom flat. Ghwa and one of her daughter’s use a wheelchair, so access is limited. When they need to go anywhere her 63-year-old husband needs to carry Ghwa, or her daughter Dilshaad, one at a time, down the stairs and into a car.

Special votes allow for the elderly, disabled, hospitalised and in prison as well as though who made a special request to cast their vote ahead of the opening of the general ballot. The 63-year-old former resident of Cape Town’s District Six, yearns to go back to the area she grew up in before she dies. She has witnessed too many of her friends and relatives die before they returned to their homes. This includes three of her sisters.

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