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Title: Aerial view of Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17541

Title: Children, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Children
Description: Children at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17545

Title: Squatter camp, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid
Description: Huge rolls of barbed wire sealing off the squatter camp were laid by security forces yesterday in Mahoe Drive.
Identifier: islandora:17583

Title: Policemen seal off KTC Squatter camp, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Policeman seal off the KTC squatter camp with two rows of barbed-wire coils after the camp was cleared. The area cordoned off was several hundred metres long and about 75 metres wide.
Identifier: islandora:17519

Title: Police convoy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: A convoy of police and Western Cape Administration Board vehicles leave the squatter camp after arresting some of the residents.
Identifier: islandora:17580

Title: Burnt-down church, KTC, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Clergy,
Description: The Rev. Simon Giqa in front of the destroyed methodist church in KTC. He holds some of the affidavits.
Identifier: islandora:17577

Title: 60 Crossroads families, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Part of the group of about 60 Crossroads families who were left homeless yesterday when they were forced to vacate the Nxolo School and a creche at the start of the new school term. In the foreground, Mrs Esme Mhlawuli, sheltering under a blanket, prepares to feed three-month-old Mongameli while his brother, Khandiwe, 3, dozes.
Identifier: islandora:17522

Title: Crossroads residents cover their faces to escape teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents cover their faces as they run to escape teargas fired at them yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17520

Title: Inside plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Poor women--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women cook food inside a plastic shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5728

Title: Retha Tait sheltered Crossroads refugees, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Left: Miss Retha Tait co-ordinator of the centre, shows the summons served on her for sheltering Crossroads refugees in a white area.
Identifier: islandora:17527

Title: Crossroads squatters, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: African Crossroads squatters.
Identifier: islandora:17566

Title: Children at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Youth
Description: ... any 'car' is hard going - especially if you have no tyres.
Identifier: islandora:17543

Title: Chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The chairman of the Crossroads Council of Churches, Bishop Sydney Mzilikazi of the Jerusalem Church, addresses a group of predominantly Afrikaans churchmen who visited Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17525

Title: Homes set alight by vigilantes, Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Fires--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A young comrade watches homes burning during the battle for Crossroads, a black settlement outside Cape Town. Vigilantes, backed by police, forced squatters of the KTC township to flee their shacks, by shooting and setting fire to their homes, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5347

Title: Crossroads residents, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women
Description: AF housing.
Identifier: islandora:17572

Title: Crossroads leader, Benedict Matho, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Teargas - Old Crossroads leader Mr Benedict Matho with a teargas canister allegedly fired at residents.
Identifier: islandora:17568

Title: Crossroads squatters, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Native Crossroads squatters.
Identifier: islandora:17565

Title: Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women
Description: One of the guests honoured by the people of Crossroads at the open - of their community centre was Sister Benigna of Holy Trinity Convent at Elsies River. Speakers said she and the Rev. David R - were among the main moving spirits behind the centre. Here Benigna is flanked by Crossroads women.
Identifier: islandora:17559

Title: Crossroads school, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, African National Congress, Schools
Description: Mandela High. Mr Christmas Tinto (left), Western Cape African National Congress (ANC) Chairman, shakes hands with Mr Ndzita Ncombo, of the Nyanga Education Co-ordinating Committee, at the Crossroads school ceremony. The school principal, Mr Zalisile Mkhontwana, looks on.
Identifier: islandora:17593

Title: Crossroads Committee supporters, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: A group of Mr Ngxobongwana's Crossroads Committee's armed supporters, identified by white headbands, stand guard at the squatter camp last night in case of another outbreak of violence.
Identifier: islandora:17569

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