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“The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.”  Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Town’s A4 Arts Foundation in December 2020. The space housed irreplaceable work by artists from across southern Africa. But what do you do when your precious archive of art and books is...

Fire in our soul: When disaster strikes, protecting precious artefacts is a matter of design Devaksha Vallabhjee © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved “The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.”  Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Tow...

Corbin August Buildings on the Rhodes Estate and UCT campus were damaged in the fire on Sunday. Some of the buildings can be repaired, but will likely be very expensive to restore. The damage to historical buildings in a Cape Town fire is "devastating", according to the Cape Town Heritage Trust. The fire, which swept down the mountain from Rhodes Memorial on Sunday morning, saw historical buildings on and around the UCT campus severely damaged. Strong winds had since pushed the fire around Devil's Peak to Vredehoek. ROLLING COVERAGE | The fire gutted the Jagger Library on Sunday afternoon, ...

A wildfire broke out early on Sunday morning spread and spread overnight towards the Devils Peak Estate/Vredehoek area of the Cape Town City Bowl. Some areas were evacuated in the early hours of the morning as a precautionary measure. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA) 21 pictures of the havoc and devastation from the Cape Town fire Share Cape Town - Firefighters are hard at work battling the blaze that started in Rhodes Memorial on Sunday and spread to Vredehoek. The wildfire that broke out early on Sunday morning spread overnight towards the Devils Peak Estate/Vredehoek area of...

Huge wildfire rages on Table Mountain forcing hundreds of University of Cape Town students to evacuate - as academic library burns and historic 300-year-old mill is destroyed More than 100 firefighters were sent to battle a blaze that broke out on Table Mountain early on Sunday morning The fire destroyed part of a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, located on Devils Peak, before spreading rapidly up the slopes Hundreds of students from the University of Cape Town were evacuated as runaway flames set several of the university's buildings ablaze  Residents have not been evacuated but have been cautione...