Mitchell’s Plain is A coloured area stretching down to the False Bay coast. More salubrious than any of the African townships, Mitchell’s Plain reflects how under apartheid lighter skins meant better conditions, even if you were not quite white.

But for coloureds the forced removals were no less tragic, many being summarily forced to vacate family homes because their suburb had been declared a White Group Area.

Many families were relocated here when District Six was razed, and their communities never fully recovered – one of the symptoms of dislocation are the violent gangs, which have become an everyday part of Mitchell’s Plain youth culture.