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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The peaceful ebb of weekend life returned to Cape Town's riot-torn townships today. Here, a small Guguletu boy dressed in a camouflaged suit parodies riot police as he marches down …
Yesterday morning Awai's general stores, 39th Avenue Elsie's River, was bustling with business. In the afternoon, all that remained was a roofless, gutted skeleton. The store was set alight by …
Police clear a street in Tiervlei where eight people were reported injured after demonstrators erected a road-block and set it alight and police used shotguns and revolvers to break up …
Policeman holding two protesters, Cape Town.
Only the walls and window frames were left after the rioters fired the Gugulethu public library on Wednesday night.
Destruction of property done by rioters with police at the scene, Cape Town.
A young boy flees as a riot policemen hits out with his rubber baton during yesterday's rioting in Athlone.
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 …
A delivery van transporting dead chickens goes up in flames in Belgravia Road, Athlone, yesterday afternoon. The driver of the van was ordered out and the vehicle set alight.
Flashback - Langa High pupils march in 1976. A similar photograph was shown yesterday to Joseph Ngoma, who saw a friend shot dead by police at the end of the …
Youths flee from a baton charge in Darling Street.
A policeman chases school children in Bonteheuwel yesterday as they run from an exploded gas canister.
A group of "white cap" migrant workers, dressed for battle, discuss tactics in Nyanga yesterday when violence swept the township.
A burnt-out teargas canister in an almost deserted Darling Street this afternoon.
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.
Mr Arthur Samuel Vlotman, driver of a hydraulic refuse truck, peers through his smashed windscreen. He had dropped workers at their homes in Guguletu yesterday when he was stoned by …
Policeman holds onto a protester who sees to his dog, Cape Town.
Manenberg residents protest over violence in area, Cape Town.
Police arrive at the scene of a protest, Cape Town.
Someone spray-painted "Sunday bloody Sunday" on a wall, Cape Town.
Man with baton walks to wards a protester on the ground, Cape Town.
A young man taken from a riot vehicle is placed on a stretcher at Athlone police station yesterday soon after police clashed with stone throwers.
Riot policeman shoots a teargas canister, Cape Town.
Onlookers and passers-by duck for cover as a riot policeman lashes out with his truncheon near Greenmarket Square today when unrest flared up in Cape Town again today.
Destruction done to two properties from riots, Cape Town.
A detective, with a baseball bat under his arm, aims a revolver in the direction of the crowd after a mob of children surrounded a police vehicle and began pelting …
This truck was 'hijacked' by rioters and used as a road block in Guguletu yesterday.
Police clash with protesters, Cape Town.
Destruction done to property due to riots, Cape Town.
The burnt out shells of shops and houses in Langa after a night of rioting and arson.
Riot police clear a crude road block in Duinefontein Road, near Manenberg, yesterday, after a group African youths had thrown concrete blocks and rocks into the road.
Police survey the interior of a pharmacy in Hanover Park which was looted by rioters yesterday.
Young people, some laughing and others screaming, dash up Darling Street at lunchtime yesterday to escape the teargas.
A pig's head thrust on to a stake was paraded among 600 demonstrating students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) yesterday. The "ritualistic" ceremony was part of a day-long …
People climb up roofs while others run for houses to take shelter, Cape Town.
Cape Town resident Mr A.J. Paulsen was one of the last people to sign the Declaration of Sympathy before it was stolen yesterday morning. Nearly 300 signatures had been collected …
Police fire teargas across Rhodes Drive at students on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus yesterday.
Top police officers confer in Adderley Street during the height of the unrest yesterday. They are, from left, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, Colonel P.A. Cerff, …
Riot squad vans arrive in the City at the height of the unrest.
Poster defaced: paint trickles down the large board outside St. George's Cathedral after an attempt early yesterday morning to deface the board bearing a poster stating, "This Cathedral Stands for …
Policeman chases after fleeing protesters, Cape Town.
Riot police fire teargas, Cape Town.
A riot-squad policeman watches as a fire rages inside part of the Nyanga East Community Centre today.
Riot policemen in Greenmarket Square, where crowds were dispersed with teargas.
Riot police with a man arrested on the Parade.
Youths in Guguletu pelted vehicles today with bricks and stones near the KTC squatter camp. The driver of this truck, the windows of which were smashed, and his passengers, were …