Summary South African writer Ronnie Govender’s work linked to Cato Manor, in Durban, urgently aims to fill an “empty space”. This is due not only to a lost childhood and nostalgia for an erased environment, but also to a sense of anger that a place like Cato Manor has never received the attention that other sites of apartheid forced removals – say District Six and Sophiatown – have. This urban township area was declared a “non-place”, it seems, not only by the apartheid government but also by the post-apartheid chroniclers of the past. This makes Govender’s task all the more urgent and poignant. If he doesn’t keep the Cato Manor of the 40s and 50s, and the histories of the descendants of indentured Indian families who lived there, in particular, alive in our memories, then who will? – one can almost hear him asking.

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卡托庄园制造：罗尼·戈文德与保护个人/公共空间的斗争

总结 南非作家罗尼·戈文德 (Ronnie Govender) 与德班卡托庄园 (Cato Manor) 相关的作品迫切希望填补“空白”。这不仅是因为失去了童年和对被抹去的环境的怀旧，还因为像卡托庄园这样的地方从未受到其他种族隔离强制搬迁的地方——比如第六区和索菲亚镇——的关注。这个城镇地区被宣布为“非地方”，似乎不仅被种族隔离政府而且被过去的后种族隔离编年史家宣布。这使得古文德的任务更加紧迫和尖锐。如果他不让 40 年代和 50 年代的卡托庄园，以及居住在那里的契约印第安家庭后裔的历史，特别是在我们的记忆中鲜活，那么谁会呢？——几乎可以听到他在问。