Plush homes in the background stand in sharp contrast to the squatter shacks in the foreground on Princess street in Hout Bay. Efforts so far, by the minister of provincial affairs and planning to offer the squatters land somewhere else, have been turned down by the squatters.
About 2000 people participated in an 'Open City' walk to indicate their opposition to the Group Areas Act which reserves certain residential areas for different race groups. This participant, with a banner saying "it's my country I will live where I choose to!!", was instructed not to hold his banner because the police had forbidden the display of any banners and posters. He tied the poster to his back so was not 'holding' it.
Most of the Magopa community moved to Bethanie in 1984. Depicted is a corrugated iron house. Part of a series on forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.