UCT Libraries

Explore our newspaper databases for digitised archives of international and African newspapers and more.

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.

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

Newspaper holdings are rich and varied, including nearly-complete runs of the Cape Argus and the Cape Times from the 19th century, as well as many community newspapers and press clippings.

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

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

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