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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At Saturday's mass funeral in Gugulethu, a United Democratic Front guard of honour salutes the seven alleged African National Congress guerrillas shot dead by police on March 3.
Part of the group of about 60 Crossroads families who were left homeless yesterday when they were forced to vacate the Nxolo School and a creche at the start of …
Railway Station, Cape Town / While Capetonians shivered at home on Wednesday night, the lights reflected in the forecourt paving of the new railway station shone for a solitary window …
Inside Rondebosch Town Hall a man blinded by teargas staggers on to the stage.
A petrol station at an intersection in Bellville, Cape Town.
Chequered sidewalks and zebra pedestrian crossings make a pleasing pattern in this air photograph of the Foreshore fountain. On the left are the Paul Sauer building and the War Memorial.
Long Street Baths, Cape Town, in 1995
