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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People attending a meeting shy away from a police dog, Cape Town.
Destruction of property done by rioters, Cape Town.
Part of the 20 000-strong crowd which went to the Gugulethu Stadium to pay their respects to the nine. Two people died in unrest after the funeral when police fired …
A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
An injured Coloured youth is carried off to an ambulance at Bonteheuwel today.
A man shot by police during intense rioting in Ravensmead last night is brought from the bush by Riot Squad police and ambulance men in Fransie van Zyl Street, Tygerberg. …
Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town.
Crowds fleeing disturbances on the parade face a curtain of gas while trying to cross Lower Strand Street.