Group Areas Act

But it's actually not that far distant history that these sorts of things happened.

So it was the Group Areas Act of 1950 where hundreds of thousands of, of quote, unquote-

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... "colored individuals" were displaced into integrated neighborhoods in and around Cape Town, and apartheid only ended 30 years ago, so that's in my-

I think...

But the Group Areas Act was still around.

And there was a strange anomaly had been created that on the sort of the so-called colored parts of town in Cape Town and on the so-called white areas, there was actually, it was... discrepancy in price.

And the traditional estate agents of the time were still around, the big guys, the goldings in the seat, they weren't really working those areas.

That's fantastic.

And I mean, for someone who doesn't really understand the spatial challenges within Cape Town, it's just to really cast your mind back to the Group Areas Act with apartheid back in the 50s.

where people of color were moved out of Cape Town, CBD, let me put it that way.

Of course, it did affect also the Jewish community because it was now about Afrikaners living in a certain space, people of English descent living in a certain space, people of Jewish descent living in a certain space.

Yes.

The Group Areas Act violently partitioned the city by race.

Where you could live, what streets you could walk down, where you could work, where you were allowed to exist, it was all strictly engineered to keep populations isolated and controlled.

So if the city is intentionally fractured by the state, the music has to grow entirely within those isolated fractures.

think definitely.

You know, when we all lived in our small little towns because of the Group Areas Act and everyone was put there.

And at the end of the day, if you did something and the neighbor saw you, you were in big trouble already.

And it became such that you were grown up by the community itself.