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SANParks said while the Newlands Forest area would reopen, other affected areas remain closed to the public.
The fire, which started on Sunday morning, has destroyed around 650 hectares of the park.
Newlands Forest will reopen to the public on Saturday, almost a week after a wildfire swept across Table Mountain National Park (TMNP).
Paths that will be reopened to the public include; Newlands Forest, Devils Peak towards Platteklip footpath, Molteno jeep track towards Kloofnek, Atlantic Seaboard (Camps Bay, Kasteelspoort etc), Constantia Nek, Lions Head, Signal Hill, and Cecilia Forest.
According to TMNP Park Manager, Frans van Rooyen, permitted recreational activities in the reopened areas mentioned above will continue as before, including hiking and dog walking with visitors, . kindly requested to remain on demarcated footpaths and to be mindful of rules pertaining to keeping dogs under control .
In January 2000, a wildfire torched about 8,800ha on Table Mountain and the urban edge, burning down 80 structures, each one surrounded by alien vegetation.
Cape Town Fires: Minister Creecy to assess damage
‘Map a way forward’
The department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment explained that Minister Creecy will “get a glimpse of the impact the fire has had on the communities around the national park.”
She will also engage the authorities and the firefighters, in order to map a way forward. Minister Creecy was joined by DFFE Spokesperson Albi Modise, who confirmed on Saturday that the “minister has just taken off to the sky [from the Newlands Base] for her to have a helicopter view of the extent of the damage”.
“Part of the plan for the minister today is to address and engage with the firefighters who were deployed to fight the fires that ravaged this part of the country.”
UCT students return to campus after devastating fires UCT students have started returning to campus after fires that destroyed buildings earlier this week. Image: University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has slowly started welcoming students back to campus, after the recent fires which affected the institution and surrounding areas.
The university s Jagger Library was gutted by a raging fire in the city on Sunday morning.
The library housed a priceless African Studies collection, which included more than 1,300 sub-collections of unique manuscripts and personal papers.
The collection of books and pamphlets on African studies alone exceeded 85,000 items.