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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Bitter residents - About 1 000 Elsies River residents marched to the RSC rent offices in Leonsdale yesterday in the name of their martyr David De Bruin to demand satisfaction …
Part of the 20 000-strong crowd which went to the Gugulethu Stadium to pay their respects to the nine. Two people died in unrest after the funeral when police fired …
132 Long Street, Cape Town, built circa 1909.
New English Church: With its square tower in Norman style the new English Church at Plumstead brings back memories of an English Midlands village. Plumstead has churches for every denomination …
Major General - The Earl of Athlone. Colonel-in-Chief - Duke of Edinburgh Own Rifles
Members of the Inkatha Freedom Party Western Cape committee hold a memorial service outside Parliament to mark the first anniversary of the Shell House shootings.
A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
Bird's eye view of the old railway station, Cape Town, before demolition.