Dan Ndzabela, 82, who had lived in Gugulethu for nearly 40 years took occupation of a home with the street number 82.
"This is a new home, a new house and my number is 82, and my age is 82," he beamed.
District Six was declared white under the Group Areas Act on February 11, 1967, and by 1982, 60 000 people had been relocated to settlements on the Cape Flats, their former homes flattened by bulldozers.
Anwah Nagia of the District Six Beneficiary Trust said, "The dignity of many of our old residents has been returned and it signals the return of the land in this country from where people were removed and can now once again return." - Sapa
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