The theme today on the KZN Hub is the letter C. On Sunday morning after the beach Henry J Starbuck Ruan Bezuidenhout and I ventured into Clairwood, Durban where we took a few photos. I worked on this photo tonight and have called it Cruel Crazy Beautiful World. There is a fire burning directly behind the two gents in the photo, and the doorway seen leads into a tavern that was open at 08:00 Sunday (I doubt it actually closed the night before). Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World is also a studio album from South African artist Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka. Released in 1989 and produced by Hilton Rosenthal and Bobby Summerfield, it is today recognized as probably the bands greatest album,[1] containing hits such Dela and Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World. The title track is addressed and dedicated to Cleggs son Jesse, born in 1988, who is depicted on Cleggs shoulders on the album cover. The song One (Hu)Man One Vote was written in honor of David Webster, a friend of Johnny Clegg and anti-apartheid activist who had been assassinated three weeks earlier. The lyrics of Warsaw 1943 were inspired from the works of Polish author Czesław Miłosz. In 1997, the song Dela (I Know Why The Dog Howls at the Moon) was released on the soundtrack of Disneys George of the Jungle ~ Wiki. Clairwood is mentioned below. Old houses, still occupied, can still be seen in between the businesses and truck yards. Most of the occupants seem to know the cruel and crazy - struggling is not the word. The SA History site states The Ghetto Act paved the way for the Group Areas Act passed in 1950, which proclaimed certain areas White. This meant that the non-White communities who found themselves in these areas would have to be moved to other areas designated as ‘Indian’, ‘Coloured’ or ‘African’. Therefore, Indian residents in Durban, like all non-White South Africans, were segregated by race. This caused a major uproar and led to the two year passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 when several thousand Indians courted arrest. Despite the protests, the act was passed in 1948. The Group Areas Act formalised the process. By 1950, the Group Areas Act was created by the apartheid government. This act displaced thousands of Indians and Africans from their homes and businesses. Indians were removed from areas such as Mayville, Cato Manor, Clairwood and Magazine Barracks, and the Bluff. By 1950 there were adverts in the newspapers for an exclusively Indian suburb called ‘Umhlatuzana’. Later, Red Hill and Silverglen (later Chatsworth) were also advertised. Reservoir Hills, which was also declared an Indian area was able for the more well to do Indians. In the north of Durban, La Mercy and Isipingo Beach were also designated Indian areas. In Merebank, purpose built houses replaced the poor settlements and by the late 1950’s a reconstructed Merebank offered cheap houses for which the purchaser had ten years to pay. Canon 6D, 24-105mm, F4, ISO 320, 1/400 sec
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