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As of Monday afternoon, the fire that has devastated Cape Town still remains ‘out of control‘. Thanks to the unbelievable efforts of firefighting teams across the city, no deaths or serious casualties have yet been reported – despite the huge scale of this inferno. However, a number of ‘cultural treasures’ have succumbed to the fast-spreading flames this week. What cultural landmarks have been destroyed by the Cape Town fires? The fire started on Sunday morning, around 8:45, close to Hospital Bend. It moved up towards Rhodes Memorial and then towards the University of Cape Town uppe...

Watch: Priceless African collections lost in UCT library fire While some of the Jagger Library's valuable collections have been lost, a full assessment can only be done once the building has been declared safe. The executive director of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) recently said in a statement that priceless African collections have been lost in a tragic fire that engulfed the university’s Jagger Library and parts of Cape Town over the weekend of 18 April. Damage to UCT’s Library According to the UCT website, the Special Collections library consists of printed and audiovisual ...

THE director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by Sunday’s fire. Picture: UCT Libraries/Facebook Some of our valuable collections at Jagger Library have been lost in the fire, says UCT libraries head Share CAPE TOWN – The director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by yesterday’s fire. Executive Director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, announced late last night that while some parts of the Jagger Library were gutted, the fire was stopped from spr...

Siv Ngesi’s latest social media post has peeps offended Share A runaway fire is raging through parts of Cape Town and one of the affected buildings is the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library, a historic library which held a lot South African literature. While the fire has prompted millions of people to pray for the city’s recovery, a few others are “celebrating” the tragedy. Actor and TV personality Siv Ngesi took to Twitter to call out such people, labelling them as “blind and stupid” in one tweet and “idiots” in another. Some of you are s...

Firefighters douse the destroyed Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain spread to the University forcing the evacuation of students. A wildfire that started on South Africa's Table Mountain early Sunday spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the school's historic library and forcing staff and students to evacuate. The Rhodes Memorial Fire broke out around 9 a.m. Sunday, according to Table Mountain National Park. The fire likely started from a "vacated vagrant fire." Extreme fire danger in the area, hea...