Interesting. So D6 was in a downward spiral driven by mostly white slum-lording? This is the first I'd heard of it. Not surprisingly, since we're not allowed to know that D6 was anything but sunshine and rainbows.

It's just one irony of revisionism that we can't attribute the blame due to whites for D6's demolition. Where are they in this restitution process? Another irony is that the requirement that D6 be seen as "wholesome" in order for condemnation of Botha to stick, depends on Botha's own moral logic, in reverse. The gross and patronizing implication being that if in fact D6 was a dirty slum, we might conclude that its razing was right.