Independent Newspapers Archive
University of Cape Town
This significant, under threat and extensive archive of about 850 000 images, now housed at UCT, spans a period from about the 1900’s – 2000. The archive has been identified as having highly significant social history and heritage value with a particular connection to Cape Town, Western Cape and UCT. Topics range from social conditions in and around Cape Town, key protests in pre- and post apartheid periods as well as a broad spectrum of political activity, sport and very large collection of images on prominent figures (sport, social, political). UCT Libraries has selected and scanned nearly 6 000 images with appropriate metadata. It will complement other collections on the history of Cape Town and the province in Special Collections. The archive intersects with History, Film and Media Studies, Sociology, and African Studies and is a valuable portal of our regional social history.
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On the offensive: Pickets from the African National Congress Observatory branch face one of the sentries outside the Castle during a protest against the Defence Force's role in the region …
A man shot by police during intense rioting in Ravensmead last night is brought from the bush by Riot Squad police and ambulance men in Fransie van Zyl Street, Tygerberg. …
In opposition camps - Mr E.C. Rooks (Social Democratic Party) and Mr Dennis Young (Labour) right, who are fighting the Sparks Estate-Greenwood Park seat in the Coloured Representative Council elections …
Before: In this rustic view of Mostert's Mill about 30 years ago, the threshing floor wall clearly formed part of the complex. (Picture by courtesy of the National Monuments' Council).
Where to? Matipa Malani, one of the St George's Mall traders who says he has nowhere else to go. "This is a big blow to me, my livelihood is about …
Boeing, Boeing - boing! It's enough to make your hair stand on end. Hair-devil aircraft fanatic Chantél Snyman, 6, of Kenridge Heights gets an earful of index finger as a …
Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town.
Group of Muslim children walking down a street, Cape Town.
Amampondo dancers. Thandi Mashiloue and Mapule Mlambo. On the Marimba: Simpiwe Matole
We Remember: National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala and senate leader Kobie Coetzee lay a wreath during a ceremony on the steps of Parliament in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary …
Riot police stand in a row in front of armoured vehicles, Cape Town.
Residences in Kotzee Street, Cape Town.
Lone picket ... Mr Enver Sherry of Athlone, a qualified teacher who claims to have been unsuccessful in his application for 40 official posts two years, is staging a series …
The new non-White station opened for the first time at noon yesterday. Hundreds of people milled about confused during the afternoon peak period as, for the first time in 103 …
Riot Police stand to the side watching a march, Cape Town.
Dr Boesak addresses students at UWC [University of the Western Cape]
Apartheid signage reserving Boulders Beach at Simonstown for whites only.
Crowds fleeing disturbances on the parade face a curtain of gas while trying to cross Lower Strand Street.
St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
This aerial picture shows Paarden Eiland in the foreground and the ribbon of road from Cape Town winding its way past Milnerton Lagoon. Koeberg Road is on the right.
Paramedics help an injured protester, Cape Town.
Money row: Students from University of the Western Cape (UWC) join others in a protest outside IDT offices in Keerom Street over the "unfair" allocation of funds.
Women's protest ... The newly-formed Women's Alliance protested in Government Avenue at lunchtime yesterday. From left, Ms Karen Buckingham, Ms Margot Lochrenberg and Ms Jennifer Radloff air views in three …
Frank Wewers of the Atlantis Youth Congress addresses a protest meeting in Atlantis
In the beginning: Herbert Penny's offices at 45 St Georges Street. The picture was taken about 1925.
The first Garlicks store on the corner of Bree and Strand Streets.
Members of one of the eight families facing eviction on Friday stand outside their house on a Noordhoek farm yesterday. They are Mr Ronald Corker and his wife Edith and …
Petitioning to release prisoners, Cape Town.
Western Cape Regional Services Council firemen fill another helicopter-borne bucket in their battle against the fire that raged from Hout Bay to Llandudno and Sandy Bay.
One of Parow's more graceful homes built on the slopes of a hill in Plattekloof.
You've read the column: now see the picture. It's that long-vanished Church Square landmark, the old slave tree.