[Telegraph - 9 April 2015] Cecil Rhodes statue pulled down in Cape Town.
Statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, removed from South Africa university to cheers from protesters.
A statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, has been pulled down from its plinth at the University of Cape Town after a prolonged protest by students.
The statue, which has occupied a prominent position on the South Africa university’s rugby fields since 1934, had been previously pelted with excrement and paint and wrapped in plastic bags by those who argued that it was offensive to black students and that memories of the brutal heritage Rhodes represented should not be preserved.
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