District Six and daredevils
The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in South Africa
The History Hour · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in Cape Town, by the South African apartheid regime and the man who jumped from space back to earth.
Also, stories about a Soviet fashionista, the Nazi occupation of Jersey and the Mongolia Revolution.
(Photo: District Six, circa 1969, in Cape Town. Credit: Getty Images)
Contributors: Zahra Nordien - who was forced out of District Six in Cape Town in 1977 Chrischené Julius - the manager of Collections, Research and Documentation at the District Six Museum Jenny Lecoat - the great-niece of Louisa Gould, who hid a Russian man from Nazis in Jersey Ganbold Davaadorj - a pro-democracy protestor in Mongolia Slava Zaitsev - Russian fashion designer Felix Baumgartner - daredevil