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 ...

A fire in the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town on April 18, 2021. RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images When it comes to apocalyptic imagery, it doesn’t get much more dire than pictures ...

The nearby University of Cape Town has also been shut and about 4,000 students evacuated. The fire destroyed the Reading Room at the university's 200-year-old Jagger Library, including a unique ...

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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 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 ...

Fire-fighting helicopters were dropping ... Around 250 firefighters were mobilized. The University of Cape Town campus was one of the first sites to be hit on Sunday and appears to have suffered ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...