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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Major F.J. Mostert, head of the Fraud Squad and former Murder and Robbery squad chief, joined riot police on Adderley Street to assist a force badly hit by widespread rioting …
250 Blacks held after a dawn swoop in Langa: Three of the boys detained in the police pass swoop yesterday. They were not charged.
Bakkie Fire: A policeman guards a burning bakkie on the N2 near Crossroads after it left the road when it was stoned today. The vehicle was set alight after the …
A policeman chases school children in Bonteheuwel yesterday as they run from an exploded gas canister.
Woman and children protest over police brutality, Cape Town.
A Black youth faces up defiantly to a uniformed police constable in Upper Plein Street on Saturday morning as police move in to break up the protest march.
Officer kicks debris off the road, Cape Town.
Police break up a protest, Cape Town.
Policemen carry away protester, Cape Town.