Author: Adams, Hettie. & Suttner, Hermione.
Title: William Street, District Six.
Description: Chameleon Press. Cape Town 1989. 80pp softcover illustrated b/w photos. large 8vo. General wear, near VG condition. ISBN: 9780620124768 Inscribed on ffep by one author thus: "To Jack & Faye, with Love, Hermione". The story of one woman's childhood. District Six lives on briefly in this personal memoir of Hettie Adams and the characters of her family in her world of William Street. The District Six community was uprooted with the application of the Group Areas Act and dispersed for ever. Despite reparations the area is now part of upmarket international Cape Town, the original inhabitants being mostly consigned to the remote Cape Flats suburbs.

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