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 ...

In 2018, University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng set up the UCT Futures Think Tank (FTT). This was a proactive step, a way to pre-emptively think and plan for the ...

The doors of the Jagger Library were temporarily opened to the public last night (Tuesday 18 April) – exactly two years after the devastating fire that tore through there on 18 April 2021.

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 ...

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 ...

Two years and thousands of hours of hard work later the staff members of the Jagger Library still have thousands of boxes of recovered material to work through following the devastating blaze of 2021.

The University of Cape Town’s Special Collections had arguably the most valuable collection of African history documents in the world. Firefighters try, in vain, to extinguish a fire in the Jagger ...

After the flames that gutted the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on 18 April 2021 were finally extinguished, the archives were thought to be lost. The Reading Room, where ...