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Cape Town Fire

Cape Town Fire

The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library, which housed thousands of theses, artworks, and precious documents, was gutted by a fire which started on Table Mountain.
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Date taken
19 April 2021
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Ashraf Hendricks
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Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp
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