Zonnebloem

Zonnebloem (previously known as District 6) is a suburb in City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Zonnebloem means sunflower in Dutch.

It was a farming estate until the early 19th century, when it became a suburb of Cape Town as the population and city boundaries grew. Zonnebloem became a home to freed slaves, merchants, labourers and immigrants. During Apartheid, it was declared a white-only area and the previous residents were evicted.

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