Nigeria, April 19 -- A wildfire broke out in South Africa's Table Mountain and spread to the University of Cape Town, burning the historic library housing African antiquities at the university.

The flames forced the evacuation of hundreds of students from the university on Sunday and destroyed the oldest working windmill in South Africa.

The fire started on Sunday near the memorial to colonial leader Cecil Rhodes and quickly spread uncontrolled beneath Devil's Peak in Table Mountain National Park in an area popular with weekend hikers and cyclists, the African news reported

By Monday morning, strong southeasterly winds, which were expected to reach more than 30 miles per hour (50 km/h) later in the day, had pushed the fire toward dense...