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Title: Processing of temporary voting cards in time for April 1994 General Election in New Crossroads
Description: !994 General Election preparations. Young woman holding up card
Identifier: islandora:6599

Title: Mothers of Crossroads/ Women's Peace Movement plant a peace tree at Noxolo school section 1, Old Crossroads
Description: Three women planting a tree in front of banner stating ""Yizani sakhe"" (Let us build).
Identifier: islandora:6597

Title: Crossroads refugees gathered at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Demonstrations
Description: These women were in a group of about 60 Crossroads refugees who gathered at the gates of Parliament yesterday imploring that the authorities stop the killing and burning.
Identifier: islandora:17670

Title: [Group of children in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993]
Description: Group of children and woman in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993
Identifier: islandora:6595

Title: Vigilante action, Crossroads, 1986
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Wit-doeke (Afrikaans for "white headbands") vigilantes, unopposed by the police, set fire to homes in Crossroads, a squatter township near Cape Town. An estimated 80,000 people were left homeless and 60 dead as a result of Wit-doeke action in 1986.
Identifier: islandora:869

Title: Noxolo School, Section 1 of Old Crossroads, where problems surfaced in Jan/Feb 1993
Description: Classroom damaged during violence in Old Crossroads, Cape Town, 1993
Identifier: islandora:6585

Title: Maureen Hamse Creche in operation, November 1994, Old Crossroads
Description: Group of children and adult in the Maureen Hamse Creche, Old Crossroads, November 1994
Identifier: islandora:6618

Title: Funeral of baby, Crossroads, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Tear gas, Children--Death, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Crossroads residents bury six-month-old Amanda Fanisa, asphyxiated by tear gas fired during police action in Crossroads, Cape Town. The South African security forces used tear gas as a standard means of "crowd control". Tear gas can be lethal, and it is especially dangerous when inhaled by young children.
Identifier: islandora:895

Title: Sash voter-education Val Goldsmit explains as Maureen Hamse translates at Topcor Centre Unathi Old Crossroads""
Description: Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election preparations. Sash voter-education Val Goldsmidt explains as Maureen Hamse translates at Topcor Centre Unathi Village, Old Crossroads
Identifier: islandora:6600

Title: The first Gov[ernment] subsidy houses built in Sect.1 of Old Crossroads - 'smartie' houses 1996/1997
Description: Houses built by Government subsidy in Section1 of Old Crossroads, 1996/1997
Identifier: islandora:6626

Title: Crossroads -Paper Presented at National Conference 1980
Description: Crossroads -Paper Presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing permanent residence eligibility, Urban Areas Act, homelands, migrant labour, Group Areas Act, work permits, lack of utilities, health.
Identifier: islandora:7106

Title: Crossroads - 6 Sash members marched with parents demanding re-admission to Sebenza High School for their children who had been excluded on the basis of ""late [crowds?] in mornings. Monday 25/09/89""
Description: Crowd of people marching in Crossroads, Cape Town, followed by two South African Police vehicles.
Identifier: islandora:6522

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