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© AP Photo/Jerome Delay Residential neighborhoods are lit by raging fires in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, April 19, 2021. Firefighters in Cape Town finally brought a wildfire under control Monday after it swept across the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain, burning the university's historic library and forcing the evacuation of some neighborhoods. The smoldering fire is being watched for flareups amid high winds and hot, dry conditions. City authorities said the fire, which started early Sunday, was "largely contained" more than 24 hours later. The fire had already badly damaged ...

The wildfire was fanned by strong winds overnight and houses came under threat.

Residents evacuated as firefighters battle Table Mountain blaze AFP 4 hrs ago AFP © RODGER BOSCH Firefighting teams work to keep the blaze from crossing Philip Kgosana Drive, one of the main arterial roads into Cape Town's city centre A blaze advanced along South Africa's iconic Table Mountain toward central Cape Town on Monday after ravaging university buildings, while firefighters battled strong winds in their efforts to control it and officials evacuated residential areas. © RODGER BOSCH A firefighting helicopter picks up water from a reservoir The fire broke out Su...

More evacuations ordered as Table Mountain fire rages on The flames have gutted several structures, including part of the Rhodes Memorial restaurant and a library at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Firefighters try, in vain, to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Library, at the University of Cape Town, after a forest fire came down the foothills of Table Mountain, setting university buildings alight in Cape Town, on 18 April 2021. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP CAPE TOWN - Four firefighters have been injured wh...

The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library, which housed thousands of theses, artworks, and precious documents, has been gutted. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks) On Sunday 18 April 2021, a massive fire made its way through the Rhodes Memorial, spreading down to the University of Cape Town.  One of the affected areas is the Reading Room of the UCT Libraries’s Jagger Library.  Below is the aftermath in pictures. The burning of the University of Cape Town’s J.W. Jagger Library on 18 April could be one of South Africa’s greatest losses of memory. Many of the most precious...