Vigilante action, Crossroads, 1986

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Title: Vigilante action, Crossroads, 1986
Creator: Tillim, Guy
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Wit-doeke (Afrikaans for "white headbands") vigilantes, unopposed by the police, set fire to homes in Crossroads, a squatter township near Cape Town. An estimated 80,000 people were left homeless and 60 dead as a result of Wit-doeke action in 1986.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1986-05
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:869
Source: mss_barricades_used_17.jpg
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Rights: The photographer/creator holds the copyright. Licensed to the UCT Libraries for educational and/or research purposes only. Please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries Special Collections for more information about publishing and/or reproducing this photograph.