UCT Libraries

Special Collections remains in recovery to rebuild and restore its world-renowned collections after the Jagger Library fire in 2021. Follow our recovery progress.

Our published collections include African studies books, films, maps, newspapers, government publications, rare and Antiquarian books, and pamphlets.

Explore the exhibitions held to commemorate the second year since the Jagger Fire. A collaborative initiative between UCT Libraries and DStv.

Journals approved by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).

Our holdings include current academic journals related to African studies in both print and digital formats. Collections of popular magazines with historic significance, and academic and community periodicals which are no longer published.

Browse Journals via Primo, Databases A-Z including open-access journals. Find journals approved by the DHET.