Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the University of Cape Town's Jagger Reading Room on April 18. Photo by Rodger Bosch / AFP / Getty Images A wildfire that sparked on the slopes of South ...

In 2015, a giant crane hoisted a 900-kilogram bronze statue of the imperialist Cecil John Rhodes from its plinth at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. Rhodes — a nineteenth-century ...

Forest fires raging in South Africa’s Table Mountain National Park have reached the University of Cape Town (UCT), and gutted the reading room of its main library, which houses irreplaceable documents ...

CAPE TOWN The University of Cape Town was once a citadel of white privilege on the majestic slopes of Devil’s Peak. At the height of apartheid, it admitted few black or mixed-race students, and they ...