The doctor from District Six
The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.
The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.
District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.