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.
Flag this collection
South Africa
St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
This aerial picture shows Paarden Eiland in the foreground and the ribbon of road from Cape Town winding its way past Milnerton Lagoon. Koeberg Road is on the right.
Paramedics help an injured protester, Cape Town.
Money row: Students from University of the Western Cape (UWC) join others in a protest outside IDT offices in Keerom Street over the "unfair" allocation of funds.
Women's protest ... The newly-formed Women's Alliance protested in Government Avenue at lunchtime yesterday. From left, Ms Karen Buckingham, Ms Margot Lochrenberg and Ms Jennifer Radloff air views in three …
Frank Wewers of the Atlantis Youth Congress addresses a protest meeting in Atlantis
In the beginning: Herbert Penny's offices at 45 St Georges Street. The picture was taken about 1925.
The first Garlicks store on the corner of Bree and Strand Streets.
Members of one of the eight families facing eviction on Friday stand outside their house on a Noordhoek farm yesterday. They are Mr Ronald Corker and his wife Edith and …
Petitioning to release prisoners, Cape Town.