A fire broke out on Cape Town's Table Mountain on Sunday and spread to a major university. A restaurant, a 200-year-old windmill, and a library were destroyed. 4,000 students were evacuated.

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A wildfire spread to the University of Cape Town campus Sunday, destroying a library reading room that houses important collections in African studies, The New York Times reported. A curator confirmed ...

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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 of a ...

A fire broke out on Cape Town's Table Mountain on Sunday and spread to a major university. A restaurant, a 200-year-old windmill, and a library were destroyed. 4,000 students were evacuated.