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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On Monday it will be 100 years since the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist. This church in Orange Street, Cape Town, was built in 1920.
Resident of the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, descending a flight of stairs leading towards the city centre.
Early photograph of the Cape Argus Printing and Advertisement offices
Auction day on the Grand Parade, Cape Town.
On the hillside at Kommetjie a small church with a bell tower. This is the Catholic church of St Joseph, built by a devoted wife in honour of her husband. …
An impressive photograph of the new heart of Cape Town, by A. J. Musgrave-Newton. It shows the dynamic growth that is taking place on and near the Foreshore. The two …
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 …
Restaurant at D.F.Malan Airport during the apartheid era. This restaurant was reserved for whites only.
Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1968.
The old Town Hall at Rondebosch: do not move the public library from this ideal spot, says a reader.
Aerial view of the Round House, formerly a hunting lodge of Lord Charles Somerset, in the Glen, Camps Bay.
House of Assembly: The Government caucus room. Here the members of the party in power meet at least once a week to discuss their tactics for business due to be …
The old municipal incinerator chimney near the Castle. It has been bound with steel bands and supported with girders and ropes to keep it upright.
The current row over proposed night-time parking in Greenmarket Square reminded a Pinelands reader, Mr Tony Freer, of the days when the historic square was a daily car park. This …
Standard Bank's main Cape Town office, which dates from many years ago. Early this century it was described as the most imposing building in Adderley Street. Still to-day it remains …
A very early photograph shows Cape Town's oldest orphanage, the Weeshuis, designed in 1800. Later it was used to house certain classes for the South African College - and still …
Demolition of houses in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
