The University of Cape Town is right to remove its Cecil Rhodes statue | David Priestland (13 April 2015)
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/cape-town-remove-cecil-rhodes-statue
Students surround the statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes as it is removed from the campus at the University of Cape Town. Photograph: Schalk Van Zuydam/AP
Rhodes was not just personally unscrupulous and venal, making his enormous fortune by cheating and bullying Africans out of their land, but he was also a committed ideologist of British racial supremacy and an important progenitor of #apartheid. Even contemporaries saw him as extreme in his imperialist views.
