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The Claremont Main Road Mosque And The Fight For Spatial Justice


iAfrica
1 month ago
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The following op-ed is written by Angela Andrews of the Legal Resources Centre.
Newlands and Claremont, affluent suburbs of Cape Town, have a tragic history of forced removals.  One of the largest and most established communities (classified “Coloured” under Apartheid racial classification legislation) was removed from these picturesque areas under the Group Areas Act in the late 1960s.
The forced removals destabilised Claremont and Newlands  and a large part of the community were relocated to the Cape Flats areas of Manenberg, Hanover Park, Mitchells Plain, Lavender Hill, Grassy Park, and even as far away as Atlantis on the West Coast – away from economic opportunities. ....

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