The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library, gutted by a fire that started on 18 April 2021, is being “reimagined”, but the funds necessary to rebuild the library, in whatever form that may be, have ...

DURBAN - AS UCT comes to terms with the destruction to property allegedly caused by a vagrant and runaway fires that began on Sunday morning, the loss of rare books and manuscripts has left many South ...

The shocking images of the flames lighting up the windows of the Jagger Reading Room from the inside will be burnt into the minds of Capetonians for years to come. Widely shared on social media on ...

Pendant lights, arched windows, carved legs of wooden tables: the Jagger Reading Room in UCT’s African Studies Library was more than just a place — it was a spiritual home to many. Now it is nothing ...

Former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa has joined scores questioning those celebrating the burning of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Jagger Library. The library was gutted by a raging fire in ...

Journalism from various newspapers may have missed an investigatory gem of information when not seeing “small fire ignition” on upper campus UCT, my alma mater. The campus Herbert Baker ...

The fire that ripped across Table Mountain on Sunday 18 April 2021, devastated UCT’s Jagger Reading Room and African Studies Collection. The collection represented the dedication of generations of ...

A message posted on the UCT Libraries' Facebook page from Ujala Satgoor, Executive Director of Libraries, said: "At this stage, we can confirm the Reading Room is completely gutted and thankfully the ...

“I think it’s the worst nightmare for any library director to see a library go up in flames,” said Ujala Satgoor, the executive director of UCT Libraries. Satgoor witnessed the inferno first-hand and ...

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, ...