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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Crossroads squatters queue at a crèche yesterday for numbered tickets enabling them to obtain tents from the Western Cape Development Board (WCDB). Many squatters were left homeless after a fire …
Looking as though covered in a light fall of snow, the lower slopes of Devil's Peak, above De Waal Drive, are carpeted with spring daisies.
End Conscription Campaign members after their appearance in Cape Town Magistrate's Court today. They are, from left, Mike Rautenbach, Andrew Orpen, Josie Grinrod, Alistar Teeling-Smith, Paula Hathorn, Mike Evans, Matthew …
Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Chanting, placard-bearing demonstrators march down a City street during an anti-Republic Day demonstration yesterday.
More like the Charge of the Light Brigade than the charge of a fire brigade: one of the historic photographs on display at the Archives exhibition shows an early Cape …
"The tanks" beach at Paarden Eiland is still relatively unpolluted. It is also a good surfing spot.
Support for the African National Congress (ANC) in the coloured township of Elsies River, Cape Town, shortly before the country's first democratic elections
Residents of an informal settlement, Cape Town.