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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Looking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.
Bulldozers (centre of picture) are cutting a swath through the old main line railway station to make way for a new road leading into the centre of the city. From …
Bird's eye view of the old railway station, Cape Town, before demolition.
Railway Station, Cape Town / While Capetonians shivered at home on Wednesday night, the lights reflected in the forecourt paving of the new railway station shone for a solitary window …
A petrol station at an intersection in Bellville, Cape Town.
The new non-White station opened for the first time at noon yesterday. Hundreds of people milled about confused during the afternoon peak period as, for the first time in 103 …