Table Mountain fire that gutted UCT library a malici dailymaverick.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymaverick.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UCT VC Phakeng says restoration process on fire-damaged buildings in full swing UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng says with the academic programme back on track, the only students who have been disrupted are the biological sciences students, as they lost their experiments in the fire. Inside UCT s Jagger Reading Room that was gutted by a fire on 18 April 2021. Picture: Shamiela Fisher/Eyewitness News.
12 days ago
CAPE TOWN - Restoration at the University of Cape Town remains in full swing following last month s devastating fire.
A fire that ignited at the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant on 18 April rapidly spread to the adjacent university and destroyed several academic and historical buildings.
DOCUMENTARY: The Cape of flames
News24
A fire started in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial on Sunday, 18 April.
It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT s library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24.
It quickly spread over the mountain, scorching about 600 hectares of land.
Its biggest victim was UCT s library, where 75 000 books from the African Studies Collection went up in flames.
Fires in Cape Town are a relatively regular occurrence, but few are quite as devastating as the recent runaway fire, which started on Sunday, 18 April.
It culminated in the destruction of some priceless cultural heritage.
The Western Cape recorded about 17 000 fires during a previous season, James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell, told News24.
PICS |
He said 95% of these fires were doused within the first hour, which speaks to what we ve got in place .