Corbin August
Buildings on the Rhodes Estate and UCT campus were damaged in the fire on Sunday.
Some of the buildings can be repaired, but will likely be very expensive to restore.
The damage to historical buildings in a Cape Town fire is devastating , according to the Cape Town Heritage Trust.
The fire, which swept down the mountain from Rhodes Memorial on Sunday morning, saw historical buildings on and around the UCT campus severely damaged.
Strong winds had since pushed the fire around Devil s Peak to Vredehoek.
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The fire gutted the Jagger Library on Sunday afternoon, with UCT still to establish the extent of the damage to its collections.
Priceless collections lost as fire destroys UCT Library and the only working windmill in the country
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Cape Town - The Cape Town Heritage Trust said it was devastated when it got word of the fire that has engulfed Table Mountain since Sunday morning.
In a statement released on Monday, the Trust said it learnt that the fire had destroyed a large part of the cultural landscape of the Rhodes Estate, the historic Tea Room next to the Rhodes Memorial, several buildings on the main campus at the University of Cape Town â including the Jagger Library, which had an internationally significant collection of historic archival documents and books â as well as the Fuller Hall residence.