Langa

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This guide to Langa in Cape Town centers on the last morning of March 1960, when residents left their passbooks at home and walked toward the police station to be arrested together, defying the law that controlled where Black South Africans could live and work. It reaches back to the township's founding in 1927, built to receive families displaced from District Six, and to the meaning behind its name, honoring the nineteenth-century chief Langalibalele. Stand among the hostels and murals that name the dead, on the oldest township ground in Cape Town.