By Wendell Roelf
South Africa’s University of Cape Town will remove a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes on Thursday, a symbolic step that exposes persistent racial divides two decades after the end of apartheid.
The statue at the university, one of Africa’s top academic institutions, has been covered up for the past few weeks as both white and black students regularly marched past with #Rhodesmustfall placards calling for its removal.
They believe it is a symbol of the institutional racism that prevails in South Africa two decades after the end of oppressive white-minority rule.
“This is just the first step,” sociology student Wandile …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
