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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Three new road bridges straddle a section of the party-built Kromboom Parkway which is a major new link in a freeway system between the N9 and Westlake. It will be …
Silwood coach house, and Mrs Lesley Fanil.
Opening of Parliament 1966.
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 …
Avalanche 200 m wide and 4 m deep - Victoria Road between Bakoven and Camps Bay
The intersection of Voortrekker and Durban Roads in Bellville.
Tangled wreckage of one coach is seen from under another rearing into the air. / Driver Injured: The conductor of the Langa train, Mr R.J. van Wyk, said after the …
Spoornet officials inspect the damaged chemical road tanker after the "accident."
Today's ceremony took place in relatively cool, cloudy conditions, but the heat of the moment was a bit too much for this young guardsman.
Police arrive at the scene of a protest, Cape Town.
The inside of Cape Town train station.
Cape Town - Railway Station - Non-white main-line station. / Finishing touches were being made yesterday to the non-White main-line station, which will come into service on Sunday. This view …
Bellstar Junction shopping mall adjacent to Bellville Station
People protest in a train station, Cape Town.
This truck was 'hijacked' by rioters and used as a road block in Guguletu yesterday.
State President (Mr C. R. Swart) chatted with the Prime Minister (Dr. H. F. Verwoerd) a few minutes before the President left Cape Town in the White Train for Pretoria …
In less than an hour the station will echo the sounds of hurrying footsteps, the shouts and the general cacophony of noise associated with a busy rail terminal. In the …
Informal trading in St. George's Mall after the pedestrianisation of St. George's Street, central Cape Town.
Shopping in Bellville, heart of the Tygerberg.
Apartheid signage at Cape Town Station, 1966.
Control desks and signal diagram in the new Cape Town Cabin seen during a test of the installation.
A group of cabinet ministers on Cape Town Station load the coffin of J. G. Strijdom onto the mourning coach on its journey to Pretoria. The group of cabinet ministers …
The scene at 8am today at the normally busy Mowbray bus terminus.
New road-over-rail bridge in Station Road, Observatory, which will be opened tommorow by the Mayor of Cape Town (Mr G.E. Ferry).
Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1969.
Cape Town's new Foreshore Freeway contract no. 3 with, in the distance, the no. 4 contract for the new parking garage that will lie between the two lanes before Christmas, …
Belching clouds of smoke and steam, this old locomotive looks almost defiant as it leaves Johannesburg and breaks free of the web-like system of power lines necessary for the running …
Horse-drawn cart and tram on Darling Street, Cape Town. Published 29 October 1977. Cape Archives.
Aerial view of the layout of Bellville Station in the early 1960s.
Bellville was originally called "12 Mile Post" since it is located 12 miles (20 km) from Cape Town city centre. The 12 Mile Stone and oil lamp, shown here, are …
The side entrance to Castle Street, now under water where the rain has leaked in, and littered with rubble and fallen beams.
Black carpet of crude oil covers most of the beach in front of Stadler Road, Bloubergstrand. Surveying the extent of the fouling are Mrs E. Laurence and her son-in-law.
Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Horses and buggies lined up outside Cartwright's, Cape Town, circa 1890s. Cape Archives.
Six buses (at one time there were 11 of them) jockey for position in a space barely the size of two tennis courts. This is the Mowbray station terminus for …
Motorbike and sidecar at a view site on De Waal Drive, overlooking the City Bowl, Cape Town