On 22 February 1985, women and children lined up to draw water from a well in the Crossroads settlement in Cape Town. Allan Tannenbaum's photograph records the queue as daily life in an area that had seen anti-apartheid rioting days earlier.
At a communal source, the time required to obtain water was transferred to individual households. The concentration of that work among women and children was part of a wider inequality in housing and public services. The ordered wait was not merely a domestic scene; it showed political segregation shaping access to water.