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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Opening of Parliament 1966.
Controversial: Mrs Winnie Mandela, in the centre of controversy over her West African trip and the police investigations against her. Dullah Omar and Winnie Mandela.
A police major issues instructions in Parliament Street yesterday.
Men help carry unconscious protester down stairs, Cape Town.
Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the …
The Chief Rabbi of Cape Town, Prof. Israel Abrahams (left) , with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Klopper, reads passages from a copy of Prof. U. Cassuto's …
A Pakistani seaman, Petty Officer Shah Muzamil, with his Mauritian girlfriend, Miss Rehana Mohamed, left, and a South African coloured woman, Miss Sandra Vercuiel, eating in the Table Mountain restaurant …
The youngest known victim of the unrest on the Cape Flats last week, nineteen-month-old Belinda Moore, was buried yesterday. Here, her father, Mr Peter Moore, holds a portrait of Belinda …