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73,500 valuable items lost from African Studies collection in UCT library fire The devastating fire consumed the historic Jagger Reading Room - home to the significant African Studies Collection, which was started in 1953 - including its roof galleries, adjacent stores and offices. Inside UCT s Jagger Reading Room that was gutted by a fire on 18 April 2021. Picture: Shamiela Fisher/Eyewitness News.
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JOHANNESBURG - Tens of thousands of valuable items from the University of Cape Town s (UCT) vast and rich African Studies Collection were tragically lost in the fires that spread across the city over the weekend.
This is according to the university s latest estimate as it counts its losses from the devastating fire that consumed its historic Jagger Reading Room - home to the significant African Studies Collection, which was started in 1953 - including its roof galleries, adjacent stores
Contributor Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 08:47 Firefighters at UCT preventing a runaway fire from spreading. Photo: Facebook/Friends of Rhodes Memorial (The Citizen)
NATIONAL NEWS - It is not yet clear how much history South Africa lost in a series of runaway fires on Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park at the weekend.
These buildings were of provincial and national importance and housed countless untold stories, educational material, artefacts and priceless trinkets.
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Emergency services at UCT. Photo: Facebook/Friends of Rhodes Memorial
Western Cape education spokesperson Elijah Moholola was not able to say exactly which parts of the 116-year-old UCT Jagger library building had been damaged, but UCT Library executive director Ujala Satgoor on Sunday said in a statement the reading room of the library was completely gutted.