South Africa: Rhodes Statue Divides Students
Opinions over the sculpture are mixed as some students have chosen not to support the movement advocating its removal.
UCT students protest the Rhodes statue.
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South Africa:
Mandela & Rhodes - Trying to Reconcile the Irreconcilable?
The Journalist, 31 March 2015
The writers - Njabulo S Ndebele, Shaun Johnson and Judy Sikuza - are, respectively, Chair, Executive Director, and Programme Director of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. These are… Read more »
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South Africa:
University's Rhodes Statue Sparks New Row Over South Africa's Past
RFI, 31 March 2015
The ruling body of South Africa's oldest university is set to rule next week on the removal of a bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the mining magnate who gave his name to… Read more »
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South Africa:
Rhodes and the Politics of Pain
GroundUp, 31 March 2015
A statue that appears to commemorate racism and imperialism occupies a uniquely privileged position on the university campus, causing evident pain to some students, professors and… Read more »
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South Africa:
Why Martin Luther King Jr Would Have Supported #RhodesMustFall
The Daily Vox, 30 March 2015
Transformation is on everyone's lips. In what started out as seemingly benign poo on a statue, has turned into a nationwide movement of self-introspection over colonial symbols and… Read more »
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South Africa:
Max Price - It's Time for UCT to Have Its Own TRC
The Daily Vox, 27 March 2015
Vice chancellor Max Price has recommended that UCT establish a forum similar to the TRC to address transformation and the lack of integration at the university. RA'EESA PATHER… Read more »
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South Africa:
#TransformWits - What Students Want
The Daily Vox, 27 March 2015
Wits University has joined the University of Cape Town (UCT), Rhodes University and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) in their recent campaigns calling for transformation at… Read more »
InFocus
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University of Cape Town students say the statue of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes is one of the structures which represents lack of transformation on the campus. Read more »
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Minister Nathi Mthethwa has said that the department of arts and culture does not support any violent removal of Cecil Rhodes's statue from the University of Cape Town campus. Read more »