Tekowa on the District 6 Museum

A while back I went to the District 6 Museum with the SPP youth group. I just came across some of my notes from that day and would like to share some of the quotes that I wrote down…

“It struck me that our history is contained in the homes we live in, tat we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled.” –Achmat Dangor (Kafka’s Curse)

Questioning Eyes (a poem by a former resident of District 6)

Its sad

The situation is so bad

That when we meet

In this dark street

We size each other up

With cautious, questioning eyes

-Peter E Clarke

“District 6 was a very poor community but their dreams were big.”

“There is a poverty of imagination because peoples spirits have been broken.”

What has continued to strike me about South Africa is that there is so much pain in their history but yet so much resiliency and in many cases, so much forgiveness. Its this kind of forgiveness that blows me away because so many people have every right 

Tekowa (on right) reading wall at the District 6 Museum