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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New English Church: With its square tower in Norman style the new English Church at Plumstead brings back memories of an English Midlands village. Plumstead has churches for every denomination …
Bird's eye view of the old railway station, Cape Town, before demolition.
Long Street Baths, Cape Town, in 1995
St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
In the beginning: Herbert Penny's offices at 45 St Georges Street. The picture was taken about 1925.
The first Garlicks store on the corner of Bree and Strand Streets.
One of Parow's more graceful homes built on the slopes of a hill in Plattekloof.
You've read the column: now see the picture. It's that long-vanished Church Square landmark, the old slave tree.