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
Aerial view of central Cape Town from the Dock Road Power Station towards Table Mountain, 1970.
Impression of matching sides to Burg Street is given by this picture by The Argus photographer. It is a reflection from the plate-glass window of a new building near the …
Old house at the top of Wale Street.
The upper picture of a new SA Railways building on the foreshore, suggests how clean architectural lines and space can be used to ensure character and dignity for the Cape …
Horse-drawn carriage in front of Groote Kerk, Church Square, Cape Town
Passers-by inspect the building from which the concrete veranda collapsed last Friday. Some tenants say the four buildings to the left are in disrepair and 'should be condemned'.
A small cottage on the Cape Flats south-east of Wynberg, an example of the almost featureless style of the Cape Peninsula of the early 19th century.
Standard General Insurance Company has paid R150 000 for this Church Street, Cape Town, property adjoining its building at the corner of Church and Adderley streets. The site area is …
Restoration work at the Governor's residence, Castle, Cape Town
Houses of Parliament, Cape Town.
Adderley Street entrance to the Groote Kerk, Cape Town
Spraklens Department Store (left), on Longmarket Street, Cape Town
Exterior of the University of Cape Town's Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch, Cape Town, designed by architect Jack Barnett in a modernist style inspired by the Scandinavian National Romantic Movement.
Memories: former Protea Village residents outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act.
The Observatory Congregational Church building cost R2,000 when it was up in 1894 in one of the green fields near the Royal Observatory. Today it is completely surrounded by houses …
No. 7-9 Bree Street. A warehouse and a good example of late Victorian industrial architecture (The Functional Tradition).
Typical of the modern architectural styles at Vredelust are [from left] the Dutch Reformed church [a timber-gabled home and a glass-walled lounge].
Weighing more than one ton, this church bell, cast in Germany, will be hung in the German Lutheran Church (St. Martin's), Long Street. Discussing ways of getting the bell into …
This is how the motorist entering Simonstown from the North sees St. Francis Church. The belfry was an addition in 1880 when the church was altered and turned about.
St. George's Cathedral: there is a peaceful country flavour about this picture of St. George's Cathedral.
The old Post Office in Adderley Street, constructed of Saldana Bay stone on the site of the old Commercial Exchange
Pastor Andrew Bester outside his church at Vredehoek.
As it is today - After reconstruction the Valkenburg manor, occupied by the Rosenfontein restaurant, became one of the Cape's most admired and best-frequented eating venues.
The arrivals lounge at D.F. Malan Airport in the late 1980s, before implementation of the airport's successive re-development plans
[Rubble] covers the old concourse where commuters once ran for their trains.
Robben Island school principal, Mr J.J. Breinissen.
For the golf nut? This house at 4 Links Road, Pinelands, overlooks the 15th hole on the Mowbray Golf Course which Gary Player describes as one of the most beautiful …
Mr Charles Borril, 44, one of the five stonemasons cutting stones in the time-honoured fashion for the new bell tower and extension to St. George's Cathedral.