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City officials were alerted about the fire before 9am on Sunday. “About 8.45am the city’s fire and rescue service was alerted to a vegetation fire above Philip Kgosana Drive. Fire crews were immediately dispatched to the scene with the fire spreading from Rhodes Memorial towards the University of Cape Town (UCT),” said Cape Town fire and rescue spokesperson Jermaine Carelse. On Monday afternoon asthma sufferers were urged to stay indoors or leave the fire zone as the fire continued to worsen. A metro cop told TimesLIVE: “We came here at about 7am and we saw the flames jump the freewa...

Significant archives are under threat in Cape Town's fire. Why they matter so much Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the '&' symbol, click Advanced Search and use the 'search headings' and/or 'in first paragraph' options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by A wildfire on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain has wreaked havoc at the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus. Among the sites of historical significance that have bee...

Inferno on Cape Town’s Table Mountain Rages Out of Control By Paul Vecchiatto and Mike Cohen | April 20, 2021 More than 250 firefighters in Cape Town battled a massive blaze that broke out on the slopes of the city’s Table Mountain on Sunday and spread to a university campus, severely damaging at least three buildings and forcing student residences to be evacuated. Efforts to extinguish the flames were hampered by howling winds, with helicopters that are usually deployed to douse the flames unable to fly on Monday. Some residents of the suburbs of Vrede...

The Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town. Photo: Ian Barbour/Flickr. April 19, 2021 at 1:40pm A tremendous wildfire that began burning on South Africa’s Table Mountain yesterday morning caused severe damage to a library housing a major anti-apartheid archive and one of the world’s largest collections of African films. The reading room of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town (UCT), home to the university’s special collections, was described as “gutted” by Ujala Satgoor, the library’s executive director in a Twitter post. Believed to hav...

Thousands of African Artifacts Tragically Lost In Wildfire at University of Cape Town More than 200 firefighters and emergency personnel have largely contained the blaze. The fire– which had been raging on Devil’s Peak in Cape Town, South Africa since Sunday morning– is “largely contained,” albeit at the cost of priceless African antiquities. Firefighters struggled to contain a fire that gutted historical landmarks, including the University of Cape Town’s library and the oldest working windmill on the land. Spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said in an update, “The incident commander...