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Title: Crossroads march, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Crossroads march. Supporters of Old Crossroads headman Mr Geoffrey Nongwe march to Nyanga police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17584

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: Plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A bed stands outside a plastic shelter erected after a mass demolition of homes, circa 1980.
Identifier: islandora:5715

Title: People clearing up after the fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Disasters, Fires, Apartheid, Squatter settlements
Description: People clearing up after the fire, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14936

Title: Vigilantes attack refugees, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Vigilantes
Description: "Witdoek" vigilantes attack refugees from Nyanga Bush opposite the Western Cape Development Board (WCDB) offices.
Identifier: islandora:17586

Title: Funeral of 17-year-old boy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Funerals
Description: Friends and relatives of Shumi Abner Duma crowd into the tarpaulin-covered garden at the Duma home for the 17-year-old boy's funeral on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:17598

Title: Police officials carry away a dead body, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Vandalism, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements
Description: Policemen carry away the body of an elderly man who was killed in the fire after arsonists torched shacks in Section Three, Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:16203

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mr. Fraser Anthony, who had lived in squatter camps most of his life.
Identifier: islandora:5744

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Maria with her daughter.
Identifier: islandora:5742

Title: Keerom players, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Children
Description: Dusty street provides a venue for these Keerom players.
Identifier: islandora:17562

Title: People watch a car partially submerged in water on fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Vandalism, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements
Description: People watch a car partially submerged in water on fire, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16107

Title: Squatter shacks close to Eastern Boulevard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Squatter settlements
Description: Right: In one of three squatter shacks which have been built close to Eastern Boulevard are, from left, Mr Sidney Baadjies, Ms Wendy Botha, Mr Jeremy van Wyk and Mr Clive Williams.
Identifier: islandora:18001

Title: Police caspir patrol in Guguletu, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Armored vehicles, Military--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Police patrol--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A police caspir patrols Guguletu township outside Cape Town as South Africans rioted against apartheid and the imprisonment of their political leaders, August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5336

Title: Riot, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Riots
Description: Above: A crowd of rioters hurl stones at the police.
Identifier: islandora:17588

Title: Protest march in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Subject: Khayalitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Apartheid, Squatter settlements, Townships
Description: Left: Part of the estimated 20 000 people on Saturday's protest in Khayelitsha. The feet of one of the marchers.
Identifier: islandora:17691

Title: Squatter women, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women
Description: Community Services (CS) official Mr Ricky Schelhase (centre with beard) with leaders of the 160 squatter women who marched on CS offices in Nyanga yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17597

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mrs. Dorothy Moses with children from the squatter camps.
Identifier: islandora:5743

Title: Police fire smoke canisters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations, Squatter settlements
Description: Police fire smoke canisters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16196

Title: Barbed wire separating Nyanga from Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The barbed wire entanglement cutting off Crossroads from Nyanga.
Identifier: islandora:17528

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

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