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 ...

UCT's Ujala Satgoor: I think it’s the worst nightmare for any director to see a library go up in flames Just two years into her tenure, the executive director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, faces ...

On Sunday 18 April 2021, a massive fire made its way through the Rhodes Memorial, spreading down to the University of Cape Town. One of the affected areas is the Reading Room of the UCT Libraries's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...