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Ash and rubble ink the way, now UCT's library just needs R150m – and several years – to rise anew

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.

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Commemorating Jagger Library: UCT, DStv launch 'Stories from the Ashes'

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.

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1 year later, UCT still rebuilding library after fire

The fire spread from the vicinity of Philip Kgosana Drive to Rhodes Memorial and moved towards UCT.

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South African Artists Keep Histories Alive Without Bricks and Mortar

South African Artists Keep Histories Alive Without Bricks and Mortar
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DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames


DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames
News24
A fire started in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial on Sunday, 18 April.
It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT's library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24.

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WATCH | DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames - it takes just one spark to ignite a catastrophe


It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT's library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24. 
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He said 95% of these fires were doused within the first hour, which "speaks to what we've got in place".

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Jagger Reading Room: the historical cost of Cape Town's fires


The Daily Vox
On the morning of 18 April 2021, a fire started near Rhodes Memorial, Devil’s Peak in Table Mountain National Park. Driven by strong winds, it reached the University of Cape Town?s (UCT) Rondebosch campus. The building worst affected by the fire was the Jagger Reading Room, which was home to the significant African Studies Collection, which was started in 1953.
The full extent of the loss is not known. The images we’ve seen give us some idea of the devastation. The executive director of the UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor has confirmed that the reading room of the Jagger Library is “gutted” but luckily the fire detection system in place triggered the fire shutters which prevented the spread of the fire to other parts of the library. 

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