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Returning UCT students face up to knock-on effect of fire on campus life The fire led to thousands of students being evacuated from their residences. Charred trees and debris litter UCT's upper campus in the immediate aftermath of the wildfire that damaged some university property. Picture: Lizell Persens/Eyewitness News 3 hours ago CAPE TOWN - As many students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) head back to lectures on Monday, some of them are still coming to terms with what happened last week. A wil...

#JaggerLibrarySalvage: Huge efforts to salvage UCT library material By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - As part of the #JaggerLibrarySalvage project, UCT and volunteers across the city, including high school learners, spent the weekend trying to retrieve valuable academic resources from the library’s basement. Camps Bay High School spokesperson Carol van der Spuy said three of their matric learners, Cathrine Madzatunya, Alev Guven and Rulida Louw, spent the first day of their school holiday volunteering at UCT’s Jagger Library, where they assisted with the salvage efforts in the wak...

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 th...

LETTER: Gift of the Givers deserves their praise By Opinion Share The response to the recent mountain fires that led to UCT’s Sport Centre, Smuts and Fuller Halls, and the Jagger Library being gutted raises a couple of questions. Why did the government, either the Western Cape or the national government fail to come to the rescue of the 4 000 UCT students that were left “homeless” by the fire? Why was it left to the disaster response and non-governmental organisation, Gift of the Givers, to come to their aid? We, as law-abiding and working citizens, pay our taxes diligently an...

Sunday 25 April 2021 - 2:40pm Three UCT campus buildings caught fire, including the main library. eNCA/Lindsay Dentlinger JOHANNESBURG - The University of Cape Town is looking for more volunteers to assist with the emergency salvage operation at the Jagger Library. It has been exactly a week since wildfires destroyed several historical buildings on UCT’s upper campus on the 18 April. Many volunteers came out to help with the cleanup operation on Sunday. Currently, the university is looking for people to assist with removing valuable materials from the basement...