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Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention [2] [3] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise" education across South Africa.
For several years, a campaign entitled Rhodes Must Fall had worked towards the removal of statues to Cecil Rhodes.A list of 60 statues, monuments and plaques considered by activists to "celebrate slavery and racism" was published online as an interactive map titled Topple the Racists by the Stop Trump Coalition.
The 1976 Hugh Masekela album Colonial Man has a song titled "Cecil Rhodes". Cecil Rhodes was the subject of a South African television mini-series, Barney Barnato, made in 1989 and first aired on SABC in early 1990. In 1996, BBC-TV made an eight-part television drama about Rhodes called Rhodes: The Life and Legend of Cecil Rhodes. [119]
The governing body of Oriel College said it will not take down the monument at this stage.
It came after the majority of Commission members supported the college’s original wish to remove the controversial monument. Cecil Rhodes statue will stay at Oxford college for now despite ...
The Rhodes Memorial remains a controversial site in post-Apartheid South Africa due to the historical political impact Cecil Rhodes had in the formation of an unequal system. [13] Some are of the opinion that colonialism and apartheid are part of the history of South Africa and that the Rhodes Memorial therefore is appropriate. Another view on ...
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902): statue at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, erected 1934, removed following Rhodes Must Fall protests, 2015 Robert E. Lee (1807–1870): statue in Tivoli Circle, New Orleans , Louisiana , USA, erected 1884, removed following protests by Take Em Down NOLA activists, 2017
He was an early imperial idealist, whose influence on Cecil Rhodes in South Africa remained of primary importance; many politicians and statesmen, who on most subjects were completely at variance with his ideas, nevertheless owed something to them. Rhodes made him his confidant, and was inspired in his will by his suggestions; and Stead was ...