Welcome to Mitchell's Plain Filming a 'Model Township' during Apartheid

• Main Author: Ommundsen Pessoa, Ludmila (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris Africae 2023
• Series: Africae Monographs
• Subjects: African history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; film-making; apartheid; South Africa; Cape Town; township; documentary film; Coloureds
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Under the apartheid regime, South Africa's Mitchell's Plain, situated close to Cape Town, was devised as a "model township." A cutting-edge urban planning scheme would provide middle-class Coloured people-evacuated from their homes by racialised rehousing programmes-with exemplar...