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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Where have all the nurses gone? To a new building at Groote Schuur Hospital. Where the eight-storey Carinus Nursing College used to be in Queen Victoria Street there is a …
The grand old lady of the Foreshore is finally to make way for a more modern development after a stay of execution of several years during which supporters and detractors …
Taking advantage of a quiet Sunday morning yesterday, demolition contractors swung into action and brought down the upper section of the old Salvation Army Temple in Main Road, Claremont.
Koranic Recital: Scores of city Muslims crowd into the Gatesville Mosque to hear visiting Egyptian qari, Muhammad Yunus Al-Ghalbam, recite the Koran at a qirat festival in the Islamic holy …
Another bit of old Cape Town is about to disappear. The occupants of three little shops nestling on a corner at the top of Adderley Street - an optometrist, a …
Corner of Burg and Strand Streets is to be the site of a Southern Sun Hotel.
St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
APLA Anniversary - Thousands of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) supporters chanted racist slogans at a rally in Gugulethu on Saturday to mark the 32nd anniversary of the founding of the …
Attentive: African National Congress (ANC) regional secretary Mr Tony Yengeni, left, Dr Pallo Jordan, ANC's head of publicity and information, and former regional chairman Mr Christmas Tinto, sing Nkosi Sikelelei …