Cape Town fire update: Mop-up operations underway, students receive local support
20 Apr 2021
April 20 2021 - Gift of the Givers donation drop-off centre at the Old Mutual in Pinelands. Following the devastating Table Mountain fire, around four thousand UCT students who had to be evacuated from their residences are now being housed by hospitality industry businesses & in hotels around the city with many other busineses donating essential goods & food to a central drop-off point at the Old Mutual Centre in Pinelands for distribution. (David Harrison/M&G)
For bystanders, it may seem as if Cape Town is getting back to normal as several roads that were closed since Sunday reopened and the dense layer of smoke covering the Mother City dissipated.
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“Let it burn to the ground.”
This remark, posted on Twitter by a user claiming to be a student representative council secretary-general at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), is being investigated by the university. This was announced by UWC council chairperson Yasmin Forbes on Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect made the remark amid the runaway fires that destroyed some of the historic buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and other iconic sites in Cape Town.
It is believed that the fire started near Rhodes Memorial, on the northern flank of Table Mountain, on Sunday morning.