P.W. BOTHA's succession to the South African premiership will mean little to the people of Crossroads, the shanty town outside Cape Town. Hanything things will get worse since Botha is known as a hardliner on the squattingissue.
GEORGE CUNVIN reports ale hulldozers to come and demolish theirhomes.
Crossroadsisonlythelatest of • number of such "squatter" townships which the authorities are determined in eliminate. DEMOLISHED In winter 1977, the large smaller commumlie ot Mod derdam, Werkgenotand Unibell were demolished. Armed police dogs supervised destruction of nearly 4,000 homes. Morethan 30,000people wereputtaflight.
Before the decision in Juneto demolish Crossroads, largest black squarter communityintheCapePcinsula.its @ecial campaign of harassment. slarting in March. 1935 COCLAI orders, including such things as the suspension of samtary services and the forced expulsion of wives.
The people of Crossroads On 7 June 200 women marched (Plural) Affairs Adminisiration them bluntly: We are not FICTION The white authorities argue that many of the souallers and especially the wives of man who Peninsula, are illegal immigrants — even though many of Cape'slabour force. them wereborn in Cape Townand should go back to their 'homelands in the Bantustans:
They thus perpetuate the legal NETTON METER WOE LETS 1EL the industrial areas of South COTCHET gastarbeitern' of the White' | the There is more behind the current policy af demolition than simply a brutal desire to drive the black people outof white' areas. the Foroverthrecycarsmorethan 200,000 black people have been TACKLETSCHC CRIS of the Cape Peninsula. current poly is a specialy post-Soweto phenonemon. and POTENTIAL These large conurbations of hack workers nose a potential threat to white supremacy.
form of resistance to the web of labour influx regulations (pass laws, migrant labour policy "homeland" citizenship, elc.) which rigidly determine their Lives as workers in Anca a system tant black workers and the the majority of the Western As a spokesperson for the Cape Divisional Councilexpres make it difficult to control the mix or persons an toes unstable conditions could be a