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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"They knew those bullets will kill," said Mrs F. September. Confined to a wheelchair for 30 years, she now has to care for her grandchild, Randall, 5, whose father died …
Development of Cape Town Harbour, circa 1990.
Destruction of property done by rioters with police at the scene, Cape Town.
Only a few hundred metres away is a shanty town of Kismetbos, where about 6000 live huddled together in sickening conditions of poverty.
Old houses in Burton Street Maitland provisionally occupied by N/White groups.
The current row over proposed night-time parking in Greenmarket Square reminded a Pinelands reader, Mr Tony Freer, of the days when the historic square was a daily car park. This …
Blooming sunny: summer and warmer temperatures have finally arrived and in the spirit of the season, Mr Rashaad Benjamin of Cape Town selects a bunch of flowers from flower-seller Mrs …
Standard Bank's main Cape Town office, which dates from many years ago. Early this century it was described as the most imposing building in Adderley Street. Still to-day it remains …
A group of Mr Ngxobongwana's Crossroads Committee's armed supporters, identified by white headbands, stand guard at the squatter camp last night in case of another outbreak of violence.
This view of Cape Town's first chimney at the Dock Road power-station was taken from recently-completed sister chimney, dubbed "Ugly Duckling No. 2". The lumps of carbon which have formed …