Independent Newspapers Archive

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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Copyright held by Independent Newspapers. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please email argpix@inl.co.za

UCT: University of Cape Town

Western Cape Regional Services Council firemen fill another helicopter-borne bucket in their battle against the fire that raged from Hout Bay to Llandudno and Sandy Bay.


UCT: University of Cape Town

One of Parow's more graceful homes built on the slopes of a hill in Plattekloof.



UCT: University of Cape Town

You've read the column: now see the picture. It's that long-vanished Church Square landmark, the old slave tree.