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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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 …