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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: 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: 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: Prayer meeting, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa, Religious gatherings--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Residents close their eyes and sing in prayer at a meeting.
Identifier: islandora:5725

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

Title: Cows, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Subsistence farming--South Africa, Cattle--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Cows roam amongst plastic shelters and corrugated iron shacks.
Identifier: islandora:5740

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: Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads - day after the downpour.
Identifier: islandora:17556

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

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