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Summary I remember District 6 - Prophets of Da City
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1. Ek is ’n laaitie vannie Ses2. Daai’s wat ek opgegroei het, District 6, sien djy. Ja
3. I reme mber the days in District 6 … ‘I remember District Six’
4. I remember the days in District 6, (Prophets of Da City)
5. the laughter of adults and little kids,
6. Hanover Street and the market loepies,
The speaker grew up in District 6. 7. Goema music was always the heart beat.
8. I remember the days in District 6,
Memories as a child growing up in this area 9. the sound of the snoek horn,
10. and the ouens used to broke with a lekker song,
The speaker remembers Hanover Street, the 11. the mister with the perd and kar used to collect scrap iron.
market, music, fish being sold, scrap iron 12. As a laaitie I was crying
collectors with their horse and cart, schools 13. And in my o’ there was a traantjie
and churches – or any other memory 14. if I didn’t have a waentjie;
mentioned in the poem. SACAI JUN 2021
15. I used to take my seil plankie, rub it with kers vet and Sunlight soap,
16. sail down the Upper Sheppard Street slopes.
17. This is the heart and soul of the young and old
18. Without District 6 we’re in the cold.
Back ground
19. Now and then my father used to gooi a braai; MOOD: Sentimental and
District 6 was a vibrant, eclectic suburb of 20. on Sundays we used to jump in the Valiant and go to Hout Baai nostalgic
Cape Town, comprising people from a range
of ethnic and social backgrounds. However, TONE: Light-hearted and
on 11 February 1966 it was declared a white carefree as the speaker
21. for krief and snoek or we just go to take a look.
area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, 22. I remember the Cool Cats on the hoek recollects memories of his
and by 1982, the life of the community was 23. and how the mobsters used to vloek childhood
over. More than 60 000 people were forcibly 24. when they get geroek Tragic and menacing at the
removed to barren outlying areas aptly 25. and we had competitions to see who had the loudest poep.
end of the poem when he
known as the Cape Flats, and their houses 26. And we had problems with the Group
describes being forcibly
in District Six were flattened by bulldozers. 27. and my ouma used to skel from the stoep
removed from his home.
28. saying: ‘Julle boere moet loep.’
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