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Title: Crossroads march, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Crossroads march. Supporters of Old Crossroads headman Mr Geoffrey Nongwe march to Nyanga police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17584

Title: Homeless women, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women, Homeless persons
Description: Homeless Crossroads women wait at Parliament yesterday while four of them met Mr Chris Heunis to plead for rebuilding of their homes.
Identifier: islandora:17581

Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

Title: Crossroads residents trying to salvage their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17523

Title: Plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A bed stands outside a plastic shelter erected after a mass demolition of homes, circa 1980.
Identifier: islandora:5715

Title: Squatter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women
Description: Crossroads - A squatter woman who was one of the many in Nyanga yesterday. The women asked to return to the land they occupied before the fighting last year. Hammers carried by some were symbolic of their wish to build homes.
Identifier: islandora:17574

Title: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Daily life in Crossroads squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17567

Title: Wounded resident, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Police lift a wounded Crossroads resident into a Casspir armoured vehicle behind the Mahobe Drive Rent Board offices yesterday evening.
Identifier: islandora:17592

Title: Smouldering vehicle in Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Demonstrations
Description: Below: Still smouldering today burnt-out vehicles lie abandoned under a haze of smoke.
Identifier: islandora:17531

Title: Aerial of Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: An aerial view of part of the vast squatter complex around the University of the Western Cape, in Bellville South, all of which is to be demolished soon. The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) building and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) can be seen at the top left of the picture.
Identifier: islandora:17549

Title: Crossroads riots, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Demonstrations, South African Police, Riots
Description: Crossroads riots, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17537

Title: Crossroads refugees gathered at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Demonstrations
Description: These women were in a group of about 60 Crossroads refugees who gathered at the gates of Parliament yesterday imploring that the authorities stop the killing and burning.
Identifier: islandora:17670

Title: Crossroads riots, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Demonstrations, South African Police, Riots
Description: Crossroads riots, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17534

Title: Crossroads resident sleeps outside, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Nombeko Gxokwe, eight months pregnant and ill, lies on her bed in the open.
Identifier: islandora:17540

Title: 60 Shacks burned down in Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements
Description: Home lost: Some of the 60 shacks burned down in Crossroads in growing tension between opposing groups in the township.
Identifier: islandora:17532

Title: Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17547

Title: Crossroads Council of Churches Chairman, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Clergy
Description: Bishop Sydney Myilikazi - chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches.
Identifier: islandora:17595

Title: After the fire at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Amid buckled and blackened sheets of corrugated iron and smouldering remnants [of] household effects, survivors of a huge Crossroads fire begin to build their shacks again yesterday on the same sites - but with better precautions against fire.
Identifier: islandora:17518

Title: Crossroads march, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Township march. Supporters of Old Crossroads breakaway headman Mr Jeffrey Nongwe yesterday marched to demand the summary removal of the squatter camp's town committee and "equal housing for all". They were later teargassed by police.
Identifier: islandora:17585

Title: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police, Demonstrations
Description: Disarmed: A policeman confiscates a stick from a Crossroads resident during yesterday's operation to "stabilise" the troubled camp.
Identifier: islandora:17529

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