District Six and daredevils

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in Cape Town, by the South African apartheid regime and the man who jumped from space back to earth.

Also, stories about a Soviet fashionista, the Nazi occupation of Jersey and the Mongolia Revolution.

(Photo: District Six, circa 1969, in Cape Town. Credit: Getty Images)

Contributors: Zahra Nordien - who was forced out of District Six in Cape Town in 1977 Chrischené Julius - the manager of Collections, Research and Documentation at the District Six Museum Jenny Lecoat - the great-niece of Louisa Gould, who hid a Russian man from Nazis in Jersey Ganbold Davaadorj - a pro-democracy protestor in Mongolia Slava Zaitsev - Russian fashion designer Felix Baumgartner - daredevil

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0:19.0	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those
0:35.2	who were there. This week from the Second World War the resistance to Nazi occupation of the British
0:40.6	Channel Islands. They were frightened, angry, and would have done anything to get rid of the occupiers.
0:48.3	People despise the Germans and they just wanted to get back to the freedom they'd had before.
0:52.4	We'll have the man who fell to
0:53.6	earth from the edge of space and the end of communism in Mongolia. Many students
0:58.8	amongst us already started to realize that communism, it's just our wish our fantasy real life should be a little bit different.
1:08.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast. We're going to begin though in South Africa during the 1960s. Under the white minority
1:15.7	apartheid regime the authorities enacted various discriminatory policies which
1:20.7	gradually ratcheted up the pressure for change.
1:23.7	One such was the forced removal of families who weren't white from their homes in specific areas,
1:29.4	like District 6.
1:31.2	Rina Stanton-Chama has been speaking to a woman whose family was forced to leave the neighborhood
1:35.3	in which she grown up.
1:36.9	My biggest memory of District 6 is when we were forcibly removed. That for me was very traumatic and is something that we will
1:46.6	never forget. That's Sahara Nordin. With her family she was one of the 60,000 people who were forcibly removed from District 6,
1:56.0	a bustling neighborhood in Inner City, Cape Town.
2:00.0	It's nestled between the picturesque table mountain and the South Atlantic, a stones
2:09.9	throw from the city centre.
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