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Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 08:47
Firefighters at UCT preventing a runaway fire from spreading. Photo: Facebook/Friends of Rhodes Memorial (The Citizen)
NATIONAL NEWS - It is not yet clear how much history South Africa lost in a series of runaway fires on Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park at the weekend. 
These buildings were of provincial and national importance and housed countless untold stories, educational material, artefacts and priceless trinkets. 
UCT library 
Emergency services at UCT. Photo: Facebook/Friends of Rhodes Memorial
Western Cape education spokesperson Elijah Moholola was not able to say exactly which parts of the 116-year-old UCT Jagger library building had been damaged, but UCT Library executive director Ujala Satgoor on Sunday said in a statement the reading room of the library was completely gutted.   ....

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