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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Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town.
Resident of the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, descending a flight of stairs leading towards the city centre.
Demonstrators from schools in Cape Town outside St George's Cathedral today in a protest against seal culling.
District Six mother Mrs J. Hendricks with two of her three children in the converted garage for which she has been paying R5 a month for the past five years. …
Malay Cemetery in the Bo-Kaap (a residential area above Cape Town).
Mr Johnny Peters, driver of the Mouille Point blue train, fondly touches the wheel of the engine as it is lifted off the tracks to undergo a well deserved overhaul.
Before the city comes to life, newspaper boys huddle round a fire (above) as they wait in the wintry cold for fresh bundles to sell.
The Mayor of Bellville, Mr W. J. Bezuidenhout, looks out over his rapidly-developing town. He visualizes it one day becoming a sprawling city with a population of about 150,000.
Silent Black Sash protestors demonstrate against outside the Station in Cape Town against detention without trial