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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: 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: 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: 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: Policeman beats Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police, Demonstrations
Description: A South African policeman beats a Crossroads resident to the ground during a baton charge to disperse protesters at the squatter camp near Cape Town, Monday 15 October. About 26 people are injured when they attempted to prevent bulldozers, backed up by units of the army and police, from clearing land vacated in recent township violence in the area.
Identifier: islandora:17524

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 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: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: It is not easy in the rain, especially if you do not have a raincoat, as this Crossroads resident found yesterday during the morning downpour.
Identifier: islandora:17552

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: 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: Youth, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Armored vehicles, Military, Youth
Description: Youngsters from Crossroads squatter settlements gather around a Casspir armoured vehicle present during yesterday's raids on two camps.
Identifier: islandora:17521

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

Title: Children, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Children at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17544

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: 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: 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: Vigilantes, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Vigilantes
Description: Conservative vigilantes in Crossroads prepare to attack younger "comrades" in fighting yesterday, which saw the burning-down of more than 200 shacks.
Identifier: islandora:17587

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:17538

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