Among the most significant losses were the university’s Plant Conservation ... Facebook Strong southeasterly winds pushed the fire toward Cape Town’s densely populated neighborhoods, where ...

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A ferocious wildfire in South Africa damaged several buildings at the prestigious University of Cape Town on Sunday and forced its students to evacuate. The blaze engulfing part of Table Mountain ...

The fire was about 70 to 80 percent contained ... No other injuries were reported. At the University of Cape Town, known as UCT, officials inspected the damage to the historic Jagger Library ...

The University of Cape Town's Jagger Library ... that property and historic buildings have been damaged by this fire," Cape Town Executive Mayor Dan Plato said. "It is tragic that literary ...

The statement said the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant had burnt down and “the fire has also spread to the veld above the University of Cape Town upper campus.” Six buildings near Woolsack Drive ...

The fire had already badly damaged the library and other buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town on Sunday, as well as other historic buildings nearby. Fueled by the high winds ...

JOHANNESBURG - A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the historic campus library and forcing the evacuation of students Sunday.

A wildfire is causing serious damage to South Africa's University of Cape Town, destroying historic texts ... is likely to be an “unattended vagrant fire” in the national park.

and part of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant caught fire, Cape Town media reported. More than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel were deployed to the university campus and to Table Mountain ...