Posted on 04/09/2015 8:55:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
South Africa's University of Cape Town (UCT) has removed a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes that had become the focus of protests.
The monument, taken down in front of cheering protesters, will be stored for "safe keeping", UCT's council said.
Students have been campaigning for the removal of the statue of the 19th Century figure, unveiled in 1934. Other monuments to colonial-era leaders have also been the target of protest in South Africa.
The BBC's Mohammed Allie told Focus On Africa radio that there was a "festive atmosphere" as students, academics, members of political parties and ordinary Cape Town residents came to witness a "historic moment for South Africa".
The crowd cheered as the statue was being lifted of its plinth. Once it was removed some students jumped on it and started hitting it with wooden sticks and covering the face with plastic.
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Going back to the savage days, from sh##ing in holes and eating each other to toilets and living next to each other to de evolving back to the wheel and fire
Very true. Awhile back I was reading an article about the fall of the Roman Empire. The author went through all the usual reasons, then he added one of his own: the mindset of the Roman citizens. No need for them to worry. They lived in the greatest empire that ever was. Rome just couldn't fall. Why? Because it was Rome!
We are seeing a lot of that same type of thinking here in the USA today.
It’s easy to say, from a distance, “get out while you can”. In fact, we are often told even by Africans “Go back to where you came from”. Well, I was born here. My Dad was born here of Scottish parents. My Mom was sent out here from the UK as an orphan when she was a couple of months shy of 16. She never gave up her British citizenship, however that doesn’t carry forward to the children from the mother’s side except for a brief period in the mid 1980s when they allowed under age 18 offspring to acquire British citizenship. My youngest sister was around 15 or 16 at the time so she was sorted out, however I and my other sister were already in our upper 20s.
The big issues would be:
1) Work. Who is going to hire a 59 year old female even assuming that she could even get a work visa? I don’t even have a university degree even though I am now working at a university. I started work in the days when, unless you had really good school results and could get a bursary, or you had parents who could afford to pay, you started work straight out of school and worked your way up to some extent. (I do, however, find myself having to teach the modern graduates how to think! I’m sure many older Freepers can identify with that.)
2) Money. When I finished school, end 1973, we could buy 1 USD for ZAR 0.70. Now it costs us around ZAR 12.00. South African money doesn’t travel well nowadays. If I had to liquidate my retirement savings (would have to pay a whack of tax), and sell my extremely modest flat, I would probably have about USD 140,000. Not much to finance the remainder of life of an almost 59 year old without much in the way of job prospects.
3) Where do I go? My youngest sister took advantage of her dual nationality to move to the UK in 1998 with her (then) boyfriend. They married about 6 months later. Problem with moving there is that I don’t like what I read about it nowadays - seems heavily Muslim. My sister is also very anti-Christian and her husband just not interested. While I enjoy her visits here, I don’t think we could live at close quarters for any length of time without clashing. They also live in a very multicultural environment which is not working too well here, as I think you find in the States as well in some areas. I believe that you can live very cheaply in certain parts of the world, but not parts that I really want to live in. Probably I would fit in best in certain parts of the USA, but I wouldn’t qualify for entry.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that when people tell us to just pack up and leave, don’t just assume that we are young and well qualified enough to do so or that we are financially equipped to enable that sort of change.
The best I can do is to rely on God while not abdicating my own responsibilty to keep myself as safe as possible.
Back to topic - I left work about 1:00pm today. We had been advised that although many students had vacated Bremner Building (which they’ve currently named Azania House) there were quite a number who had refused to do so. The university had a court order for them to vacate by 2:00PM (currently around 3:55pm) so things could get rather hectic.
How he came about to own the land?
He bought it. Of course many here would go with the Communist dictum “property is theft”.
How soon will Marie Harf denounce the UCT for homophobia for removing the statue of Cecil Rhodes?
What you read may well give you a very misleading impression of the extent of that problem. There are plenty of areas in the UK where there is little or no Muslim presence or influence.
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