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Southern Africa: The Statue and the Shit
The Journalist, 6 May 2015
Rhodes the founding father of apartheid Read more »
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South Africa: Rhodes Has Fallen!
The Daily Vox, 9 April 2015
After almost a month of protests, led by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, the University of Cape Town's statue of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed at 5pm on Thursday, 9… Read more »
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South Africa: It's Not About the Statues, Stupid!
Daily Maverick, 9 April 2015
On Thursday evening, below the dramatic backdrop of Table Mountain, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes rose from its plinth, teetered in mid air, and was then lowered onto a flatbed… Read more »
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South Africa: South Africa University Removes Cecil Rhodes Statue
DW, 9 April 2015
Hundreds of University of Cape Town students cheered as workmen removed a decades-old statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes after weeks of protests. The scholars described the… Read more »
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South Africa: Rhodes Has Fallen, Now What, Minister Mthethwa?
Daily Maverick, 10 April 2015
Rhodes has now fallen. Now the question, as always, is what should we do next. University of Cape Town students are not alone in their anger. Statues in Port Elizabeth and Pretoria… Read more »
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South Africa: Analysis - Between a Statue and a Soft Place - Afrikaners' Ongoing Existential Quest for Belonging
Daily Maverick, 8 April 2015
On the same day that singer Sunette Bridges threatened to chain herself to the statue of former President of the Boer Republic, Paul Kruger, in Pretoria's Church Square,… Read more »