Showing posts with label Cecil John Rhodes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cecil John Rhodes. Show all posts
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Land-grabber Rhodes still honoured all over SA
Adekeye Adebajo, Business Day
THIS year marks the 110th
anniversary of the founding of Rhodes University, which was created with Cecil
Rhodes’s wealth and named after him.
It is also the 86th
anniversary of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) relocation to Rhodes’
estate, which he bequeathed to it. Both universities continue to grapple with
transformation, even as they largely ignore these lingering historical
connections. While many symbols of Afrikaner supremacy have been removed, the
legacy of the greatest symbol of British imperialism — Rhodes — remains
surprisingly uncontested.
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