The District Six Museum:( 2 ) The Memory Cloth

Museum tour guide Noor Ebrahim explains how victims of the forced removals from District Six can now tell their stories:

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This we call a memory cloth. Now people that used to live in District Six will come in and they will write their names, where they used to live and their address of course, and different stories [on the cloth].

We have between 200 and 300 metres full of names already. And in fact not this piece, but the other piece that was before, we sent that to the prison. So the woman prisoners did all the stitching and embroidery work so we don't lose the names. You can see, this is actually embroidered. If you feel it, it's all embroidered. That's the story about the cloth.

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• Media
• South
• Africa
• Apartheid
• Education