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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Children's bathing pool, Camps Bay.
City train wreck: A section of the wreckage after the train smash yesterday on the Cape Town-Bellville line. Left, a workman cutting away the twisted chassis of the front coach …
Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1968.
Old steam locomotive on Cape Town Station: The Old Iron Horse. It was the first railway to be used in South Africa, and came into service in 1860 in the …
Statue of Jan van Riebeeck in its original location at the entrance to Cape Town Pier, circa 1920s.
The Foreshore Freeway which will link the Eastern and Western boulevards. At bottom, work can be seen in progress over the Culemborg goods yards. To the right of the freeway …
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 …
