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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Mr James D. Petersen, a former long-term convict, shows the rank he received to mark his status as a "General of [the] 26s prison gang in the Cape.
General views at Mozoka showing the large number of police who were drafted into the area while the search for suspects was on.
Golden pen to be used by Dr Dönges when he becomes President.
People's government - Looking forward with smiles are members of the Western Cape's regional parliament who met for the first time on Saturday. Includes: Cameron Dugmore, Allan Boesak, Ebrahim Rassool, …
The old Town Hall at Rondebosch: do not move the public library from this ideal spot, says a reader.
Noel Williams, Chairperson of the Atlantis Residents Association (ARA), the leading organization for radical politics in Atlantis in the 1980s, addresses a protest meeting at Atlantis
Mrs Alice van Blerk outside half her house in Observatory. Arrow shows where building operations have cut the house by half.
Nelson Mandela and Gordon Oliver
Robert Broadley's painting of the opening in 1947, recently hung in Assembly. Mr H.S. Binh, Superintendent of the House of Assembly on left.
