Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Cross ya yi aiki ya rike mukamai da dama a ayyukan daban-daban a lokacin aikinta a matsayin ma'aikacin zamantakewa. Ta yi aiki sosai a Shirin Ciyar da Yaran Afirka. A ranar 16 ga Yuni, 1976, Cross yana aiki a Soweto don Majalisar Birnin Johannesburg, wanda ke gudanar da bitar aiki mai kariya ta Orlando. An kama ta a farkon tashin hankalin Soweto
a kan gwamnatin Afirka ta Kudu a zamanin wariyar launin fata. Ta bayyana tserewarta daga rikicin Soweto a matsayin "kwarewar ban tsoro".