HOUSES: DISTRICT SIX 1943-45 'I lived on the edge of District Six - the "coloured" area. It ws poverty stricken”¦ Several members of one family were squeezed into one place, obliged to sleep and eat in the same room which was hardly ventilated and awfully dilapidated, while in the backyard several families had to share one toilet.'
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