Memories of a Forgotten People
By DOUGIE OAKS | Published Sep 14, 2017
ON THE first day of the spring of 1967, Simon’s Town joined Tramway Road in Sea Point, District Six in the centre of Cape Town and a range of other suburbs sprinkled around the city in being declared a white group area. The news was greeted with shock by the soon-to-be-moved coloured residents of the town – but the signs were always there….