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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Anti-apartheid political protest, Cape Town.
Above: flames shoot through the first-floor window of a Burg Street building on Saturday afternoon. Below: The fire destroyed the Shukokai Karate Club on the first floor as well as …
Pan African Congress (PAC) meeting/rally.
Women hold placards protesting the actions of the Death Squads, Cape Town.
Table Mountain protest - environmental demonstrations.
Smiles. Leon Scott had a happy smile for every person who shook his hand after he was released today.
Professor Henri Scaillet, his wife Nadia and baby Anouchka.
Stands in solitude. At the foot of Adderley Street the Heerengracht traffic islands offer wide lawns on which to erect Statues. At present Van Riebeeck stands there in spacious solitude.
Cape Town: flower sellers in Trafalgar Place.