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A library in Delft Cape Town has implemented a programme to reward young people for learning and reading. As part of the programme, young people who read or do their homework at the library earn an ...

In 2016, a community leader saw a gap for educational spaces. Nearly a decade later, libraries across Cape Town offer kids a ...

They call it the Hot-Spot library: a ramshackle building of plywood and sheet metal set on a crime-ridden street corner in Cape Town, South Africa. With its threadbare couches and mismatched carpets, ...

In the wake of the devastating fire in the Jagger Library in Cape Town, restorers are trying to save what they can. So far the salvage has been a success. It was early morning when Tina Löhr landed at ...

A fire gutted the Southern Strand library in Cape Town on Saturday. All that remained were pieces of mangled metal, glass and a carpet of blackened remains of books. The roof was also destroyed. A ...

Firefighters try, in vain, on Sunday to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Library, at the University of Cape Town, after a forest fire came down the foothills of Table Mountain, setting university ...

The wildfire that is thought to have begun near the Rhodes Memorial on the slopes of Table Mountain has spiralled rapidly out of control. The city's University of Cape Town (UCT), nestled in the ...

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The Diary of a Wimpy Kid craze shows no sign of slowing in Cape Town — at least not when it comes to overdue library books. The bestselling series once again dominates the City’s list of most ...

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 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 ...