South Africa's District Six Cookbook Helps Preserve A Lost Community
By the 1980s, 60,000 people had been forcibly removed from this mixed-race section of Cape Town. But the area's food traditions reflect the spirit of helpmekaar, an Afrikaans term for mutual support.
You can tell a lot about a culture by its food, particularly if food is all that remains.
District Six was a mixed-race section of Cape Town, South Africa, that was home to Europeans, Asians, Africans, Christians, Muslims and Jews.
A half-century ago, District Six, which was just outside of downtown, was declared a whites-only area. By the early 1980s, 60,000 people had been forcibly removed from their homes.
To commemorate the anniversary of the order and as part of its ongoing work to preserve the culture of the lost community, the in Cape Town has released .
