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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From left: South African Communist Party (SACP) chief Joe Slovo, Toni Yengeni, Walter Sisulu and African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Alfred Nzo at Table Bay Harbour
A worker at a Maitland textile factory tends spin frames, the last stage in the spinning process before they yarn is cleaned.
View from the new Railway building, Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
"Scarred and dirty" - see paragraph "Victim of age".
A fairly large number of Saldanha-based trawlers were forced to take shelter in Table Bay this week because of the high winds at sea. According to port officials the vessels …
Woman cleans her hands in river, Cape Town. Muslim Shrines (Bakoven).
In traditional garb these Fingo women and tribesman celebrated at Gugeletu today, the 134th anniversary of the acceptance of Christianity by the Fingo tribe. The celebrations were officially opened by …
Here the Liesbeek, which begins as a limpid mountain stream, flows into Table Bay.
Policeman holding two protesters, Cape Town.
Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' …