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In my opinion the statute should have been SMASHED in S Africa.
Qwabe argues Oxford honours colonial figures like Rhodes and Christopher Codrington – giving their name to Rhodes House and Codrington library – without criticism. “Rhodes’s legacy is presented in a very uncritical way. It’s a celebration of his triumphs, as opposed to any critical reflection on who this guy was and the consequences of what he did.”
Cecil Rhodes was the British-born mining magnate and founder of De Beers, responsible for introducing enforced racial segregation policies as Prime Minister of Cape Colony in 1890. The Rhodes Scholarship which pays for talented international postgraduate students to study at Oxford, including former US president Bill Clinton, remains Rhodes’s biggest legacy at the university.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/18/oxford-uni-must-decolonise-its-campus-and-curriculum-say-students
Qwabe argues Oxford honours colonial figures like Rhodes and Christopher Codrington – giving their name to Rhodes House and Codrington library – without criticism. “Rhodes’s legacy is presented in a very uncritical way. It’s a celebration of his triumphs, as opposed to any critical reflection on who this guy was and the consequences of what he did.”
Cecil Rhodes was the British-born mining magnate and founder of De Beers, responsible for introducing enforced racial segregation policies as Prime Minister of Cape Colony in 1890. The Rhodes Scholarship which pays for talented international postgraduate students to study at Oxford, including former US president Bill Clinton, remains Rhodes’s biggest legacy at the university.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/18/oxford-uni-must-decolonise-its-campus-and-curriculum-say-students