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Blaze on Cape Town’s Table Mountain brought under control By Paul Vecchiatto and Mike Cohen (Bloomberg) A wildfire that broke out on the slopes of Cape Town’s landmark Table Mountain on April 18 and caused extensive damage to a university campus and several historical buildings has been contained. Howling winds that hampered firefighting efforts on Monday abated on Tuesday and helicopters were able to resume dropping water on parts of the mountain where the fire continued to burn. Six firef...

UCT campus salvaging books from burned library Reuters"> By Reuters - 20 April 2021 - 18:46 A library at the University of Cape Town believed to contain its priceless African Studies collection was gutted. Image: SUPPLIED Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Towns library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ruins on Tuesday to try and salvage what was left. On...

UCT ‘will rebuild facilities’ after devastating fire, says VC Mamokgethi Phakeng University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng says the institution can create new treasures out of our own scholarship after the Jagger Library was destroyed by a fire. File photo. Image: Esa Alexander University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng on Monday expressed optimism the institution will recover from the destruction caused by the wildfire which dest...

© RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa were evacuated on Sunday, after a wildfire spread to the school, burning the campus library. According to The Associated Press, a wildfire burning on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain extended to the University of Cape Town, burning part of the Jagger Library, which is home to archives and book collections. At least two floors of the library were caught in the flames. Wind caused the flames to ...

Additional reporting by Victoria O’Regan Efforts to contain the out-of-control wildfire that erupted on Table Mountain on Sunday morning at around 8.45 continued throughout the night. The unforgiving inferno – suspected by the Table Mountain National Park to have been ignited by an unattended vagrant fire – burnt down a restaurant at Rhodes Memorial and damaged multiple buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, including the library. Efforts continue to contain a vegetation f...

As of Monday afternoon, the fire that has devastated Cape Town still remains ‘out of control‘. Thanks to the unbelievable efforts of firefighting teams across the city, no deaths or serious casualties have yet been reported – despite the huge scale of this inferno. However, a number of ‘cultural treasures’ have succumbed to the fast-spreading flames this week. What cultural landmarks have been destroyed by the Cape Town fires? The fire started on Sunday morning, around 8:45, close to ...

Watch: Priceless African collections lost in UCT library fire While some of the Jagger Librarys valuable collections have been lost, a full assessment can only be done once the building has been declared safe. The executive director of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) recently said in a statement that priceless African collections have been lost in a tragic fire that engulfed the university’s Jagger Library and parts of Cape Town over the weekend of 18 April. Damage to UCT’s Library ...

THE director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by Sunday’s fire. Picture: UCT Libraries/Facebook Some of our valuable collections at Jagger Library have been lost in the fire, says UCT libraries head Share CAPE TOWN – The director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by yesterday’s fire. Executive Director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, announced la...

Siv Ngesi’s latest social media post has peeps offended Share A runaway fire is raging through parts of Cape Town and one of the affected buildings is the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library, a historic library which held a lot South African literature. While the fire has prompted millions of people to pray for the city’s recovery, a few others are “celebrating” the tragedy. Actor and TV personality Siv Ngesi took to Twitter to call out such people, labelling the...

Firefighters douse the destroyed Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Towns Table Mountain spread to the University forcing the evacuation of students. A wildfire that started on South Africas Table Mountain early Sunday spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the schools historic library and forcing staff and students to evacuate. The Rhodes Memorial Fire broke out around 9 a.m. Sunday, according to Table Mountain National ...