'Nothing's Changed' - Tatamkhulu Africa

NOTHING'S CHANGED

1NOTHING S CHANGEDBY TATAMKHULU AFRIKAhttp://teachable.net/res.asp?r=14502CONTEXTNothing s Changed is about an area in South Africa called District Six. The narrator in the poem once lived in District Six and has returned after many years.
There is a lot of emotion in this poem - mainly anger. In order for you to understand this anger you need to know what happened in District Six and to the people that once lived there. 3DISTRICT SIX
Originally it was formed as a community for the freed slaves merchants artisans labourers and immigrants.
Most of the people who lived in District Six were working-class. They wanted to live close to the city harbour and factories where they worked.
It was was Cape Town's most mixed area until it was declared a whites-only area under the Group Areas Act of 1950 and the apartheid government in 1966.
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Between 1966 and 1980 60 000 people who lived in District Six were forcibly