ABSTRACT
Manenberg housing was built in the 1960s according to the fashion for neigh-
bourhood unit planning and in part response to the forced removals from inner-
city areas such as District Six. Photographer David Lurie’s ten images from
Manenberg Avenue form a detailed study of life in one of Cape Town’s poorest
parts. They present perhaps one ‘point of view’ from the main drag in the mod-
ernist planned dormitory ghetto of Manenberg.
