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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Gracious past: these elegant Victorian town houses in Hiddingh Avenue, Gardens, may be lost to residents, if a rezoning application for business rights is approved.
Packing a punch: Speaking to thousands of people at an African National Congress rally in Philippi, Deputy Minister Winnie Mandela lashed out at police and press - and vowed she …
Men climb up onto robots to take photos, Cape Town.
Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) meeting at Parow.
Looking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.
Horse-drawn hearse carrying the coffin of Themba Memani for his funeral in Guguletu today.
Bulldozers (centre of picture) are cutting a swath through the old main line railway station to make way for a new road leading into the centre of the city. From …