Thankfully, the kind of thing could never happen here in America.
Petitioning Oxford University to REVOKE Ntokozo Qwabe's scholarship or initiate disciplinary actions
Jan Hendrik Ferreira London, United Kingdom
Dear Louise Richardson -Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Please accept this signed petition as an official request for your institution to revoke Mr Ntokozo Swab’s Oxford scholarship, or at the very least, initiate disciplinary action for his recent cowardly and disrespectful behaviour displayed towards a working class female citizen in a Cape Town cafe. Mr Ntokozo Qwabe and friend violated a person’s dignity, publicly degraded and humiliated her, and created a highly offensive situation which Mr Ntokozo Qwabe has since taken great pleasure in narcissistically boasting over her reaction across social media.
Mr Ntokozo Qwabe clearly does not uphold the values expected of an institution such as Oxford University and his actions have ultimately brought your educational establishment’s image into disrepute.
We ask the university to consider the irony that Mr Ntokozo Qwabe is pursuing a career in Law when his personal conduct in this situation is highly questionable. Whilst it is understood that student confidentiality is important for any educational establishment, and it’s likely that you will be obligated to honour this confidentiality to “protect” him, but please note that Mr Ntokozo Qwabe did not display any such integrity or honourable behaviour towards the waitress. Regards JH Ferreira - Social Worker
I would also like to inform the public of the criteria which are used in the selection of Rhodes Scholars (I want to especially highlight two):
1. "truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship."
2. "moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings." source:
http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/rhodesscholarship/about-the-rhodes-scholarships
Please see below particulars of the incident at the cafe in Cape Town:
Ashleigh Schultz, 24, was reduced to tears when Ntokozo Qwabe – a leader of the campaign to remove a Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford – and a friend wrote on their cafe bill: ‘We will give tip when you return the land.’
He bragged online that they had made her cry ‘typical white tears’, leaving him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened’.
The incident took place at Obz Cafe in the Western Cape, South Africa, has ignited a backlash against Mr Qwabe, who was branded a racist bully. Miss Schultz’s friends said she had already been feeling low as her mother has cancer. One said: ‘She has a very sick mother she cares for, and had to move flat recently and is worried about all of this. She did burst into tears because she is having a tough time at present.’
Stacey-Leigh Wood, a friend of Miss Schultz, said: ‘This is so sweet of everyone that donated. That other idiot [Mr Qwabe] still needs to be slapped though.’
South African Mr Qwabe is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, meaning he receives money from the Rhodes estate to study.But he is also one of the leaders of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which wants the statue of the 19th-century imperialist removed from Oriel College.One of the online campaigns was triggered by an outraged South African, Sihle Ngobese, who decided to pay the tip himself and said: ‘Qwabe is someone that claims to speak to the downtrodden and the disenfranchised yet he has the audacity to bully a working-class young woman.
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University of Oxford, Louise Richardson
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