Vodacom Media Release: Vodacom donates R3 million to help with humanitarian aid due to devastating fires in Cape Town
Vodacom to contribute towards the rebuilding of the Jagger Library and offered UCT students free data and airtime Vodacom has donated R3 million towards relief efforts to help thousands of people impacted by a runaway fire in Cape Town at the weekend. The blaze that engulfed the Rhodes Memorial restaurant, multiple buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT), including the Special Collections library that houses rare collections of African Studies was started accidentally according to SANParks. The blazing inferno forced the evacuation of over 4,000 UCT students to emergency accommodation. According to the Cape Town fire and rescue department, two firefighter were injured and are being treated in hospital. Shameel Joosub, Vodacom Group CEO said: “We have witnessed a human and historic tragedy following the devastation, human displacement and the loss of historic sites and rare collections at UCT Library. Our R3m d...