In the varied architectural landscape of District Six in Cape Town lived a close-knit community of artists, musicians, writers, politicians, priests, sheikhs, workers, gangsters, sportsmen,
housewives and business people. When, in February 1966, the National Party government announced that District Six was to be razed to the ground in order to make space for a new 'white area',
the poet James Matthews suggested to George Hallett and Clarence Coulson that they photograph the area before the bulldozers came in.
District Six Revisited is set to become the definitive collection of photographs of this vibrant suburb, whose destruction became a symbol of the cruelty and inhumanity suffered by the people
of this country. It attempts to reconstruct the spirit of the place from important historic photographs, some of which are published here for the first time.
