Firefighters try, in vain, to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Library, at the University of Cape Town, after a forest fire came down the foothills of Table Mountain, setting university buildings alight in Cape Town, on 18 April Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images A fire has engulfed part of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, “gutting” the Reading Room of the institution’s Jagger Library, writes Ujala Satgoor, the UCT library executive director, on Twitter. Around 4,000 students were evacuated yesterday after a wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread to the campus. A message from @UCTLibrary Executive Director Ujala Satgoor on the fire that devastated the Reading Room of the Jagger Library where @UCTLibrary_SC situated. pic.twitter.com/yj8c9NbA7O— UCTLibrary_SC (@UCTLibrary_SC) April 18, 2021