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Speaking about building Rylands (1960s to 1980s): a Cape Flats history
(Taylor and Francis, 2014)
This article draws on oral histories of Rylands, a former Indian group area on
the Cape Flats. It shifts focus from narratives of dispossession to narratives of
the making of a relocation site. The Cape Flats has generally ...
False fathers and false sons: Immigration officials in Cape Town, documents and verifying minor sons from India in the first half of the twentieth century
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This article examines the rituals of admission to Cape Town, developed by the immigration bureaucracy at the port, for minor sons from India. It provides a context for why the entry of sons of established Indian residents ...
Paper regimes
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In 1915 Baba Bapoo, a store assistant in Cape Town, was thrown into a state of great mental and emotional stress when he lost his permit en route to India. This was the only document that could guarantee his re-admission ...