Blikkiesdorp photo gallery

Blikkiesdorp (i.e. 'tin can town) is one of a number of 'Temporary Relocation Areas', concentration camps, set up to house the urban poor in Cape Town. There are similar abominations in Johannesburg and Durban. This photo gallery has some pictures of Blikkiesdorp as well as the Symphony Way Occupation - which held out against eviction to Blikkiesdorp for many months before being defeated.

Symphony Way - the central site of resistence to forced removal to Blikkiesdorp

Meeting on a Symphony Way Road Blockade

The Symphony Way Occupation resists eviction to Blikkiesdorp

Blikkiesdorp - a new concentration camp to hide Cape Town's poor away

Blikkiesdorp

Blikkiesdorp

Police attack the Symphony Way Occupation

The Symphony Way Occupation resists eviction to Blikkiesdorp

The massively expensive Cape Town football stadium built for the 2010 World Cup

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This is horrible, and also

This is horrible, and also why 'District 9' was a great movie. Had it involved actual people though, it probably would have received very little interest.

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