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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Gunners' memorial, part of the Delville Wood memorial complex in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966.
Spreading suburbs of Green Point and Sea Point on the slopes of Signal Hill and Lion's Head as seen from the air.
Allan Boesak at an United Democratic Front meeting in Cape Town
Lone fisherman on the rocks at Blouberg, with an iconic view of Table Mountain
In time for festival: Mr Alexander Sinnet of Swift Street, Salt River, puts the finishing touches to a scale model of the Royal Sovereign, which was built in 1637. All …
Nelson Mandela on the phone
The Prime Minister, Mr P W Botha, in the electoral college of MPs in Cape Town today, with the Minister of Internal Affairs , Mr J C Heunis,