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Title: Police caspir patrol in Guguletu, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Armored vehicles, Military--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Police patrol--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A police caspir patrols Guguletu township outside Cape Town as South Africans rioted against apartheid and the imprisonment of their political leaders, August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5336

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: Riot, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Riots
Description: Above: A crowd of rioters hurl stones at the police.
Identifier: islandora:17588

Title: Protest march in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Subject: Khayalitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Apartheid, Squatter settlements, Townships
Description: Left: Part of the estimated 20 000 people on Saturday's protest in Khayelitsha. The feet of one of the marchers.
Identifier: islandora:17691

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

Title: Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Neighbours congregate in the garden of the house next door to where police shot dead a suspected guerrilla in New Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17570

Title: Aerial of Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of Crossroads squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17563

Title: Police, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Police presence, Crossroads squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17564

Title: Squatter women, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women
Description: Community Services (CS) official Mr Ricky Schelhase (centre with beard) with leaders of the 160 squatter women who marched on CS offices in Nyanga yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17597

Title: Principal of Noxolo School at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Youth, Education
Description: Mrs A.N. Mene, principal of the Noxolo School at Crossroads, teaches her Std 5 class. The school was built by the Urban Foundation in co-operation with the Crossroads residents. Money is now required to buy desks for two recently added classrooms at the school.
Identifier: islandora:17542

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mrs. Dorothy Moses with children from the squatter camps.
Identifier: islandora:5743

Title: Police fire at rioters, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, South African Police, Apartheid, Riots
Description: Police fire at rioting squatters today at Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:17590

Title: Barbed wire separating Nyanga from Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The barbed wire entanglement cutting off Crossroads from Nyanga.
Identifier: islandora:17528

Title: Crossroads residents, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: A recent picture of Dr Fredrick van Zyl Slabbert at Crossroads squatter camp talking to African shanty dwellers. With Dr Slabbert is the Rev. David Russell, who does full-time missionary work among African migrant workers.
Identifier: islandora:17557

Title: Crossroads residents peer into SACLA clinic, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police, Demonstrations
Description: Crossroads residents peer into a ward at the SACLA clinic where people wounded by the police gunfire were treated yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17530

Title: Policeman at Old Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, South African Police, Apartheid
Description: Door-to-door: A policeman takes away a bundle of sticks from a shack in Old Crossroads. Bulldozers levelled part of Section One in the camp and security forces fenced it off with razor wire.
Identifier: islandora:17539

Title: Refugees, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Refugees from KTC and Crossroads, surrounded by their possessions, waited in the grounds of Holy Cross Centre for a bus to take them back to the townships yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17573

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