WATCH: This is what it looks like inside UCTâs 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 âout of controlâ 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 City Bowl overnight. Firefighters are still battling the blaze. Parts of UCTâs library, residences and upper campus buildings were damaged by the fire.