Research Archives

Research Archives

University of the Witwatersrand

This site includes the two major research archives at the University, namely the Historical Papers Research Archive (HPRA), and the South African History Archive (SAHA). In addition it incorporates our partner institution, the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Museum & Learning Centre, and the projects AFRAPIX and MEDU. This multi-institutional setup allows for searching across these institution's online finding aids and searchable digital items.


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University of the Witwatersrand English

A letterbox modeled on a military tank in a white area at No 20 Taronga Rd, Crawford, Cape Town Cape Town.






University of the Witwatersrand English

Portrait of a family in their home. A woman sits with her children.








University of the Witwatersrand English

1 Photograph, B/W Print, A4


University of the Witwatersrand English

Residents attending a civic meeting organised by Bommakierie, Bridgetown, Silverton and Kewtown (BBSK) Residents Association. The association is demanding more equitable housing conditions.





University of the Witwatersrand English

Two families in a Gugulethu Hostel. People in the hostel refer to their bed as a 'room' and their room as a 'house'.






University of the Witwatersrand English

All that remains of District Six are a few churches and trees.



University of the Witwatersrand English

Malungu park, on the borders of Gugulethu, is a new housing estate for the rising petit bourgeois in the black community. Notice the double garage and twin level. 1984


University of the Witwatersrand English

1 Photograph, B/W Print, A4




University of the Witwatersrand English

A woman sits on a box outside a shack at Crossroads in Cape Town.





University of the Witwatersrand English

Life in the new township of Khayelitsha. Children bathing in the open in a bucket next to a shack .



University of the Witwatersrand English

A child has a bath in a large metal bucket outside in front of corrugated iron dwellings, probably on a farm.



University of the Witwatersrand English

Women and children are sitting outside their corrugated iron dwellings, probably on a farm.











University of the Witwatersrand English

Plush homes in the background stand in sharp contrast to the squatter shacks in the foreground on Princess street in Hout Bay. Efforts so far, by the minister of provincial …