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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Restaurant at D.F.Malan Airport during the apartheid era. This restaurant was reserved for whites only.
Released: the first six ANC prisoners from Robben Island yesterday after spending three to 10 years are from left, Eddie Humalog, Nelson Topeka, Mohan Mmoledi, Vuyisile Mbundu, Bushy Maape and …
Right: The beach front at Muizenberg soon after sunrise on a clear winter's morning. This photograph shows the area of beach once occupied by the now demolished Muizenberg Pavilion.
Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
City train wreck: A section of the wreckage after the train smash yesterday on the Cape Town-Bellville line. Left, a workman cutting away the twisted chassis of the front coach …
The land of sunshine and something. Wildebeest in Rondebosch.
Protesters hold a banner that reads "Our courts have been castrated", Cape Town.
People protest with placards on the steps of St George's Cathedral, Cape Town