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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An injured Coloured youth is carried off to an ambulance at Bonteheuwel today.
Enamelware for sale at the Grand Parade, Cape Town, on market day.
Protesting activists and supporters of the United Democratic Front (UDF) demonstrate at the funeral of the 7 "terrorists", Cape Town.
For the record - A policeman snaps away with his camera during the African National Congress (ANC) picket yesterday.
Granger Bay, Victoria Dock, 1980.
L-R: In the year of his assassination, Prime Minister HF Verwoerd (left) is shown with members of his Cabinet: (left to right) Minister PK Le Roux (Water Affairs and Agricultural …
Dr. Jan Dommisse, Mayor of Cape Town and U.P. [United Party] candidate for Sea Point (left), in a last minute chat with party leader Sir De Villiers Graaff and (right) …
"Licence fees are going up but life must go on," seems to be the stoical grin-and-bear-it reaction of Grand Parade flower seller Mrs K Knowlden to the news that her …
Fourth-generation islander Warrant Officer G.E. Carroll at the grave of his grandmother, Mrs Mary Ann Agne Nutt, in the island's cemetery.