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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Some of the 50-odd students who took part in a silent picket protest on Jameson Hall steps at UCT [the University of Cape Town] yesterday over the death of Imam …
A bunch for 20c or 30c: in Venice they cost that each. Cape Town's flower-selling community are having to "import" certain blooms from the Transvaal - they are flown to …
Long procession of Natives shout slogans as they near Langa after a trek from all parts of the Peninsula. Thousands streamed into the township to take part in the funeral …
Newspaper seller carries Die Burger in rain, Cape Town
Above: Ronnie van Westhuizen calls quiet from the crowd as Mrs Elsie Mkhumbuzi interprets. "We will try to help from our side," he told the crowd.
The Commercial Exchange Building, erected in 1819, demolished 1895, and replaced by the Post Office building.
Cape Town, as seen looking towards Bellville from Signal Hill. The top photograph, from the Cape Archives Arthur Elliott Collection, was taken around 1870. Apart from the buildings, the greatest …
Almost futuristic in design, the Parow East Dutch Reformed Church in Tygerberg Road was built three years ago. The unusual tower rests on a triangular base and dwindles to a …
Grief-stricken - Mrs Martha De Bruyn collapses after her son, David, was shot dead.