She added that food and emergency accommodation had been arranged for the students evacuated on Sunday.
Many students recalled Sunday s ordeal as a day of panic and confusion.
They were told to pack their essentials and were then transported from the campus in a haze of smoke.
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Economics student Mathew Field said the day was apocalyptic, like a scene from a movie . Students were on campus studying for tests, while others were sleeping at [the residences] when suddenly the sky turned grey and red, he said.
A University of Cape Town library burns after a wildfire spread from the slopes of Table Mountain the university.