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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The old municipal incinerator chimney near the Castle. It has been bound with steel bands and supported with girders and ropes to keep it upright.
Cool down: a helicopter flying under contract for the Cape Town City Council drops a shower of water on a fire that destroyed more than 200 hectares of fynbos along …
The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and …
City protest ... Two nuns, who were later arrested, walk in Burg Street yesterday to participate in a placard demonstration in support of the Yengeni trialists. Several people were arrested …
Prime Minister D F Malan (centre) with his full Cabinet, Cape Town, 1951. Malan's successor, J G Strijdom, is on his immediate left, and Strijdom's successor, H F Verwoerd, is …
The narrator, holding a whip, warns the bride and the groom.
Mrs M.H.H Richardson - Plumstead.
Registers demonstrate - Magistrates Court.
One of the oldest buildings in Rondebosch - which has served as a police station for more than 70 years - is up for auction shortly. Built around 1880, it …