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Counting the historical cost of Cape Town's fires


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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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Cape Town wildfire 'guts' university library that houses anti-apartheid archives and one of the world's largest African film collections


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 ....

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