District Six Museum

District Six matters to Cape Town in a way that's impossible to separate from present-day housing, inequality, and who belongs in the city. The museum exists because former residents and their descendants refused to let the forced removals disappear from public memory. Guided tours here aren't academic—they're led often by people who lived through the dispossession, or by guides trained to carry those testimonies forward. School groups come to learn what apartheid meant in material terms. Families return to find their addresses on the museum floor. Visitors from elsewhere come to understand what 'social cohesion' actually costs when it's built on erasure. The guide's role is witnessing, not explaining.