Zonnebloem

Zonnebloem (Dutch for sunflower)^[2] is a suburb in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, previously part of District Six.

Zonnebloem Kanaladorp
District Six
Street map of Zonnebloem
Coordinates: 33.931°S 18.433°E / -33.931; 18.433
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
Municipality	City of Cape Town
Main Place	Cape Town
Area [1]
• Total	1.42 km2 (0.55 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	5,122
• Density	3,600/km2 (9,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	39.4%
• Coloured	31.4%
• Indian/Asian	2.2%
• White	19.6%
• Other	7.4%
First languages (2011) [1]
• English	47.1%
• Afrikaans	26.6%
• Xhosa	8.5%
• Zulu	1.6%
• Other	16.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	7925

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.^[3] Zonnebloem became a home to freed slaves, merchants, labourers and immigrants. During apartheid, the area of District Six was declared a white-only area and the previous residents were forcefully evicted under the Group Areas Act of the apartheid regime.

The suburb hosts the District Six Campus of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

On 17 December 2019, the Arts and Culture minister, Nathi Mthethwa, gazetted the renaming of Zonnebloem to District Six after the District Six Museum launched a campaign earlier that year to have the old name brought back and some residents applied to the South African Geographical Names Council in 2018 for the same.^[4][5][6]