Jagger Library News Today

During UCT’s Jagger Library fire, South Africa lost a priceless collection. A new book explores the calamity.

Five tonnes of ash and rubble and 289 pages symbolise the mammoth task of recovering and restoring what was lost in a blaze that tore through the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library in April 2021.

18 April 2021 was one of the saddest days in the history of the University of Cape Town. The world watched as the Table Mountain runaway fire destroyed

Part of the renovations include repairs to the Jagger Library, which contained significant historic African literature collections and galleries.

VC Daya Reddy says there is still a long journey to recovery ahead

On the second anniversary of the UCT fire, dignitaries from the university and partner organisations gathered to commemorate the Jagger Library and launch the ‘Stories from the Ashes’ project.

The doors of the Jagger Library were opened to the public last night (Tuesday 18 April) – exactly two years after the devastating fire that tore through there on 18 April 2021.

Parts of the University of Cape Town were destroyed, along with six other buildings, including the historic Mostert’s Mill.

Little progress has been made in restoring the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library and other buildings razed in fires almost two years ago.

Researchers find that extreme fire weather ‘has become 90% more likely in a warmer world’