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A blaze advanced along South Africas iconic Table Mountain toward central Cape Town on Monday after ravaging university buildings, while firefighters battled strong winds in their efforts to control it and officials evacuated residential areas. The fire broke out Sunday morning in the foothills of the mountain and spread to the University of Cape Town (UCT), destroying buildings and part of a library housing a unique collection of African archives, while causing students to flee. The blaze had ...

Residents evacuated as firefighters battle Table Mountain blaze AFP 4 hrs ago AFP © RODGER BOSCH Firefighting teams work to keep the blaze from crossing Philip Kgosana Drive, one of the main arterial roads into Cape Towns city centre A blaze advanced along South Africas iconic Table Mountain toward central Cape Town on Monday after ravaging university buildings, while firefighters battled strong winds in their efforts to control it and officials evacuated residential areas....

WATCH: This is what it looks like inside UCT’s gutted Jagger Library By Phando Jikelo, Rudolf Nkgadima 2h ago Share Cape Town - Hundreds of years of history have gone up in smoke after an “out of control” fire destroyed the the Reading Room of the nearly 200-year-old Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town. The wildfire broke out early on Sunday morning at Rhodes Memorial and spread to UCT yesterday and then towards the Devils Peak Estate/Vredehoek area of the Cape Town C...