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Rhodes: As divisive in death as in life

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(Leanne Stander and Muntu Vilakazi, City Press)

Johannesburg - He is as controversial in death as he was in life.

More than 110 years after his passing, British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes’ legacy is being hotly debated across the length and breadth of South Africa after students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) tossed human waste at his statue, City Press reports.

The students contend the statue represents everything Rhodes stood for: racism, plunder, white supremacy, colonialism, pillaging, dispossession and the oppression of black people.

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