View of Imizamo Yethu (center), with the gated houses of Hout Bay in the back.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
"We have saying that says "freedom", meaning that we live in a democratic country, but are we really free. It's segregated here," said Nandipha Breakfast, 23, a resident of Imizamo Yethu and director of a local NGO.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
"It's schizophrenic being a conscious white South African. People see you as the solution and the problem. I'm extremely disappointed by the post-apartheid South Africa. Our current situation is still defined by the geographics of the apartheid state," said Bronwyn Moore, 48, a resident of Hout Bay and director of a local NGO
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashadq
"Apartheid was brutal, savage and barbaric to indigenous South Africans. The change after 1994 is just a change of faces of government," said Nkosinathi Mahala, 51, a librarian at the Western Cape provincial library services.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Gordon Aeschliman, 58 and his wife Michelle Reid, 46 at their house in Hout Bay.
"It's an easy hook to say we are in apartheid society. Apartheid was a legal system. So, by the law you were expected to be racist. It's illegal to be racist now. Nowadays, we live in the shadow of apartheid," said Gordon.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Jonnes Banda, 35 and Grace Banda, 32 with their children Mary, 14 and Evelyn, 2 outside their house in Imizamo Yethu.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Julie Raqavelas, 48 and her children Basel, 13, Mary, 15 and Anastasia, 13 at their house in Hout Bay. "During apartheid, it was a very visible violence and an unspoken but all pervading apartness and constant dampening of your senses of injustice in one sentence; heart breaking. During dismantling of apartheid, it was a relief, fear of the unknown and holding onto hope. Post apartheid, it was excitement at seeing integration and despair at the ones that refused to change," said Julie.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Shacks where residents of Imizamo Yethu live.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Residents of Imizamo Yethu outside their house.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Julie Raqavelas, 48 at her house in Hout Bay. "During apartheid, it was a very visible violence and an unspoken but all pervading apartness and constant dampening of your senses of injustice in one sentence; heart breaking. During dismantling of apartheid, it was a relief, fear of the unknown and holding onto hope. Post apartheid, it was excitement at seeing integration and despair at the ones that refused to change," said Julie.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Children play in Imizamo Yethu.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Anastasia Raqavelas, 13 (left) and Mary Raqavelas, 15 play at their house in Hout Bay.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Children play in Imizamo Yethu.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad
Constance Kama, 48 (center) outside her house in Imizamo Yethu.
July 2016. Photo by Jonathan Rashad