//Chronicles of Spatial Violence: A Digital Archive Series//
This year marks 70 years since the National Party passed the Group Areas Act of 1950 introduced by the Minister of the Interior, Hendrik Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid, authoritarian and Afrikaner nationalist. Fast-forward to the 21st century, we are still waiting for restitution and reparations from this legacy of displacement and forced-evictions. In Cape Town back in 2014, we talked with skateboarder, boardshaper, and photographer Kent Lingeveldt to contextualize how the past affects our present. Kent takes us on a quick ride through his community, where he reflects on space and displacement. Specifically, here he discusses the importance of reclaiming space like District Six in Cape Town, South Africa, an area that once was a thriving and inclusive community with folks of different cultural backgrounds and religions that were brutally demolished. Forced evictions and displacement is nothing new in South Africa and globally. Black and Brown people throughout the country were affected by the Group Areas Act, clearing out neighbourhoods such as; Sophiatown, Cato Manor, Riverside, Prospect Hall, Bellair, Hillary, Sea Point, Lansdowne, Claremont, and many more affecting 3.5 million South Africans.
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