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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After the barricade, the bailing began for these Elsies River residents, who had a hard time keeping the floods from their front doors.
District Six mother Mrs J. Hendricks with two of her three children in the converted garage for which she has been paying R5 a month for the past five years. …
Before the city comes to life, newspaper boys huddle round a fire (above) as they wait in the wintry cold for fresh bundles to sell.
The Mayor of Bellville, Mr W. J. Bezuidenhout, looks out over his rapidly-developing town. He visualizes it one day becoming a sprawling city with a population of about 150,000.
Silent Black Sash protestors demonstrate against outside the Station in Cape Town against detention without trial
Hundreds of people gather at Princess Vlei for baptisms
Mrs Esther Feder and her family have lived at Bloemhof for generations. With her is her great granddaughter, Rene, 5.
There is a large technical staff at Capab, requiring men and women with manual skills.
Group of people stand in front of Parliament, Cape Town.
Greeting his colleagues before today's Cabinet meeting is (left), Dr Piet Koornhof, the Minister of National Education and of Sport and Recreation with (far left) Mr M. C. Botha (Bantu …
Sea Point swimming-pool is a popular spot in the hot weather and it gets its full share of local holidaymakers and tourists.
Relatives of Internal Security Act detainees called for their release, 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 …
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 …
Controversial wall of Cape Point
Above: The rector of St Mark's, The Rev. Stanley Gray, stands before his church in this, the brick-strewn landscape of District Six.
Little 'Argie Boy' looks rather like an opera singer hitting a high note as he attracts customers with the traditional cry of 'Argeee.'
The new International Hall at D.F.Malan Airport will open officially to international flights on Sunday. The building is spacious and well lighted, with several up-to-date facilities for passengers and airport …
A group of End Conscription Campaign members gathered on Muizenberg Beach yesterday and built a massive peace sign in a call for peace in South Africa.
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 …
Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
From left: South African Communist Party (SACP) chief Joe Slovo, Toni Yengeni, Walter Sisulu and African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Alfred Nzo at Table Bay Harbour
Woman holds anti-apartheid signage, Cape Town.
First coloured woman ever to vote in South Africa is Mrs W. Simpson of Crawford. She rose early today to be in time for the opening of the polling station …
Charges of holding an unlawful demonstration were withdrawn against seven people in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court today. The picture show's (from left) Sister Theresa Paul, Sister Denise Esther Fiore, …
Dr Ivan Toms, a conscientious objector and founder of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Cape Town.
Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) supporter dressed for the occasion, but cutting a somewhat lonesome figure at a deserted HNP table at the Janssens Hall polling booth in Milnerton yesterday, was …
Noel Williams, Chairperson of the Atlantis Residents Association (ARA), the leading organization for radical politics in Atlantis in the 1980s, addresses a protest meeting at Atlantis
Shopping centre in Athlone, Cape Town
Niggie Sante Burger, foreground, of the Aandster Volkspele circle, Bellville, was among the 500 people who attended a Day of the Vow gathering on the Groote Schuur estate today. The …
Notice, "Employees only, visitors will be prosecuted."
Kinders bewonder die R 1-geweer, 'n deel van die uitstalling van die Weermag op die Kaapse Skou. Veral die miniplaas en die stalle het gister groot aftrek gekry. [Children admire …
Released: A well-wisher welcomes Mr David Moisi back to the mainland after he and two other long-serving prisoners, including Mr Mandala Shabangu, right, were freed from Robben Island. They had …
Some of the 36 political detainees released today.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes …
Lone fisherman on the rocks at Blouberg, with an iconic view of Table Mountain
The Prime Minister, Mr P W Botha, in the electoral college of MPs in Cape Town today, with the Minister of Internal Affairs , Mr J C Heunis,
The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and …
City protest ... Two nuns, who were later arrested, walk in Burg Street yesterday to participate in a placard demonstration in support of the Yengeni trialists. Several people were arrested …
Prime Minister D F Malan (centre) with his full Cabinet, Cape Town, 1951. Malan's successor, J G Strijdom, is on his immediate left, and Strijdom's successor, H F Verwoerd, is …
Registers demonstrate - Magistrates Court.
Old houses in Burton Street Maitland provisionally occupied by N/White groups.
A group of Mr Ngxobongwana's Crossroads Committee's armed supporters, identified by white headbands, stand guard at the squatter camp last night in case of another outbreak of violence.
Mr Boyied Chinyama, unofficial leader of the Malawian community in Elsies River: "Wherever I go the land belongs to the Government."
People demand the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Mr. H. D. Campbell, secretary to the Coloured Management Committee for Bellville South, in front of the new civic centre which the Town Council of Bellville has built for the …
Peace painters - Two artists at an End Conscription Campaign "peace call-up" yesterday paint a mural at the Educare Centre, a crèche in New Crossroads.
