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 ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN – The director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by yesterday’s fire. Executive Director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, ...

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 ...

As the fire which erupted near Rhodes Memorial ravaged parts of UCT’s upper campus, including the Jagger Library, students were evacuated to hotels around Cape Town. UCT suspended the academic ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Cape Town – Three University of Cape Town (UCT) students tried to shut down the library and some faculty buildings on Tuesday. University spokesperson Elijah Moholola confirmed that the library was ...

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 ...

Everything in the Jagger Reading Room was destroyed by the wildfire that spread to six University of Cape Town buildings on Sunday, UCT confirmed on Wednesday. “The archival and published print ...

Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Town’s library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ...