GloMag GloMagMarch2020 | Page 130

clouds were swirling of permanent consequence without fair warning, the life we knew was bulldozed over, every trace of our race erased evaporated to make space for their 'pure' race so we were scattered across the Cape Flats and squashed into strange areas out of District Six in 1966 – Forever in our memories... Scatterings of Africa – Our proud mixed race heritage shattered rebranded coloureds our daily lives uprooted family trees cut off maimed punctured severed – Our pride torn interrupted. Nightly new sounds become strange nightmares as all of us could not bare the loss of our ruptured cultural heritage shredded to pieces by a clever racist campaign to cleanse the city and indeed the country of our existence, so here we are trying our best to somehow survive in a foreign viper nest having to protect ourselves and each 130