This visual essay looks at three districts or neighborhoods in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Each of these districts is related by attempts to memorialize the past and to present to contemporary visitors a version of that past. This essay begins with the District Six Museum, a shrine to the destruction brought by apartheid to the Cape Town cityscape. Then we look at the neighborhood of Bo-Kaap, historically the residential area of the Malay community. Finally we briefly examine the city of Stellenbosch, founded by the Dutch colonizers in the 17th century.
