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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: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Blood drips down the back of a man spending the night at The Haven Night Shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5736

Title: Woman crouches against rock to protect herself from the elements, Cape Town
Subject: Poverty, Homeless persons, ,
Description: Nawandle Ngongo crouches against a rock in Nyanga. All she has left to protect her from the elements is a blanket.
Identifier: islandora:15605

Title: Sick woman sitting on bed, Cape Town
Subject: Poverty, Homeless persons, Politics, ,
Description: Desperately ill, Mrs Evelyn Magxala spends her days in a sweltering tent in the Nyanga dunes waiting for the Administration Board to decide her fate and that of 750 other squatters.
Identifier: islandora:15604

Title: Homeless children, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless children--South Africa, Poor boys--South Africa, Children--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Three young boys sleep on the back seat of a wrecked car in a scrapyard at 6am on a cold spring morning. Another three slept in the front. They were all younger than 8 years of age. One of the boys wore only pants, and had cigarette burn marks on his chest.
Identifier: islandora:5730

Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa--Social conditions, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A naked man in one of the communal bedrooms at the Haven Night Shelter. For a nominal sum, a homeless man could get a bed for the night, a protein-enriched supper, bathing and washing facilities, and the opportunity to see a social worker.
Identifier: islandora:5737

Title: Informal settlement of Kismetbos, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements, Shanty town, Homeless persons, Poverty, ,
Description: Only a few hundred metres away is a shanty town of Kismetbos, where about 6000 live huddled together in sickening conditions of poverty.
Identifier: islandora:15241

Title: Family stand amongst the rubble of what was once their house, Cape Town
Subject: Weather, Grief, Homeless persons, ,
Description: Stunned by the ferocity of the freak wind that reduced their home in Ottery on the Cape Flats to rubble at dawn today, this family gazed unbelievingly at their belongings, which were smashed in less than five minutes.
Identifier: islandora:15633

Title: Family members search for their possessions amongst the rubble, Cape Town
Subject: Weather, Grief, Homeless persons, ,
Description: Ottery.
Identifier: islandora:15632

Title: Two men building a shack, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements, Homeless persons, Architecture, ,
Description: Heave-ho - Mr Joseph Themba Ntswanqela (foreground), helped by Mr Zulungle Vityolo, builds a shack in Noordhoek.
Identifier: islandora:15561

Title: Clerk and interpreter talk to squatters about relocating, Cape Town
Subject: Authority, Forced removals (South Africa), Homeless persons, ,
Description: Transit talk: Milnerton town clerk Mr Peter Gerber uses an interpreter in discussions with squatters about their relocation to the temporary transit area next week.
Identifier: islandora:15298

Title: Crossroads squatters, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Townships, Homeless persons
Description: Crossroads squatters queue at a crèche yesterday for numbered tickets enabling them to obtain tents from the Western Cape Development Board (WCDB). Many squatters were left homeless after a fire swept through the camp on Tuesday.
Identifier: islandora:17582

Title: City vagrant couple the day before their wedding, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons, Wedding rings, ,
Description: Wedding Bells - City vagrant Mr Ernest Charles, 32, and his bride-to-be Miss Joy Sayser, 24, yesterday proudly showed off the two 18-carat gold rings which were donated for their wedding to be held in Green Point this morning.
Identifier: islandora:15220

Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A man climbs stairs at the Haven Night Shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5735

Title: Men selling and buying sheep heads, Cape Town
Subject: Entrepreneurship, Homeless persons, ,
Description: At the hostels less appetising and less hygienic food is prepared. / One of the characteristics of the normally peaceful Crossroads squatter settlement is this common sight - women fetching water. Skaapkop (sheep heads) is a favourite delicacy of many of Cape Town's black residents and this appreciation is well shown here at a pavement butcher shop in one of Nyang's streets, above.
Identifier: islandora:15587

Title: Soup kitchen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soup kitchens, Homeless persons
Description: Right: Homeless squatters at a soup kitchen set up by the Islamic Medical Association and the Muslim Youth Movement. The soup kitchen and a first-aid post are in Lansdowne Road.
Identifier: islandora:17575

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