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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Protection - These children in a house in Terminus Road had their faces daubed with petroleum jelly in anticipation of teargas being fired when Gugulethu residents this week marched to …
Shopping centre in Athlone, Cape Town
Niggie Sante Burger, foreground, of the Aandster Volkspele circle, Bellville, was among the 500 people who attended a Day of the Vow gathering on the Groote Schuur estate today. The …
Energy, the statue on the slopes of Devil's Peak, Rhodes Memorial, seems to be shielding his eyes from the unsightly smog which once again settled over the city today.
Notice, "Employees only, visitors will be prosecuted."
Cape Town Harbour and reclaimed land on the Foreshore, Cape Town.
Kinders bewonder die R 1-geweer, 'n deel van die uitstalling van die Weermag op die Kaapse Skou. Veral die miniplaas en die stalle het gister groot aftrek gekry. [Children admire …
Released: A well-wisher welcomes Mr David Moisi back to the mainland after he and two other long-serving prisoners, including Mr Mandala Shabangu, right, were freed from Robben Island. They had …
Aerial view of the Round House, formerly a hunting lodge of Lord Charles Somerset, in the Glen, Camps Bay.