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Firefighters battle the blaze at the HM Pearson, Fuller and Jagger Library buildings at the University of Cape Town’s Rondebosch campus on Sunday 18 April. As human beings we are rightly shocked and mourn loss of life and this will always be our primary response when disaster hits, but coming second is also a profound sense of loss and grief that we can feel when there is irretrievable loss of tangible heritage and legacy left by those who came before us and the wiping out of tangible markers of events that were of great importance to humanity's past. We also hurt and mo...

Residents evacuated as Cape Town fire spreads April 21, 2021 The fire has been raging for more than 24 hours South African emergency workers have evacuated three 17-storey residential buildings overlooking Cape Town as a huge fire burns along Table Mountain. The blaze spread quickly after breaking out on Sunday morning near a memorial to politician Cecil Rhodes. A restaurant was destroyed. The University of Cape Town’s historic library was also badly damaged. About 250 firefighters have been battling the blaze, which has been fanned by strong winds. Helicopters were used to water-bo...

The Torah, housed at UCT's Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies, was secured on Sunday after a veld fire spread to the campus from Rhodes Memorial.

UCT suspends academic programme for rest of the week due to Cape Town fire damage 2h ago Share Cape Town – While UCT initially suspended the academic programme for two days due to the fire and evacuation of staff and students on Sunday, it has now been suspended for the rest of the week. The University of Cape Town’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng said that following the assessment of the damages to upper campus, and the need to clean residences and academic buildings it means that the academic programme will be suspended until Friday, 23 April. “The academic pro...

As wind subsides, firefighters hope to bring Table Mountain fire under control Table Mountain National Parks' fire manager, Philip Prins, said that they were hoping for better weather conditions to make firefighting efforts easier. Firefighting teams dampen smouldering vegetation, finally getting a fierce forest fire under control on the foothills of Table Mountain in Cape Town on 19 April 2021. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP one hour ago CAPE TOWN - The wind has subsided in Cape Town, bringing much-needed res...