When UCT’s Plant Conservation Unit went up in flames earlier in 2021, images that are used to understand environmental change were lost
The campus where I work is built around a central concourse of stairs leading up the slopes of Table Mountain. On one side of this bisecting line are mostly arts and humanities buildings; on the other are mostly sciences. Seen from above, the two halves of campus mirror each other like a Rorschach test. Literature has its symmetrical twin in mathematics; architecture is echoed by astronomy, history by biology.
When a mountain fire swept down from the slopes on Sunday April 18 2021, embers carried by a hot, dry wind randomly picked out buildings for destruction. The cypresses and creepers outside my office were set alight, but the building survived . But the roof of the Jagger Reading Room just opposite began to burn, perhaps because embers flew into the gaps between the roof tiles. Fire fighters were concentrating on buildings with gas cylinders and stockpiles more flammable than books...
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