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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Riot police stand in a row in front of armoured vehicles, Cape Town.
Residences in Kotzee Street, Cape Town.
Lone picket ... Mr Enver Sherry of Athlone, a qualified teacher who claims to have been unsuccessful in his application for 40 official posts two years, is staging a series …
The new non-White station opened for the first time at noon yesterday. Hundreds of people milled about confused during the afternoon peak period as, for the first time in 103 …
Riot Police stand to the side watching a march, Cape Town.
Dr Boesak addresses students at UWC [University of the Western Cape]
Apartheid signage reserving Boulders Beach at Simonstown for whites only.
Crowds fleeing disturbances on the parade face a curtain of gas while trying to cross Lower Strand Street.