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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Slipping further under the surface...
Dumbasses
The Union of South Africa was Rhodes’ creation — and he was an early (albeit not entirely consistent) advocate of extending the voting franchise to blacks.
Destroying everything, what will they replace it with? That is the key.
And universities used to be the one place that tolerated, indeed cherished, unpopular ideas.
Nature abhors a vacuum — and Islam adores the abhorrent.
At least they’ll feel good about themselves while their country collapses....
For the last month the students have been occupying the Bremner Building which is where the central admin is, eg finance, payroll, HR, registrar, Vice Chancellor and his deputies,etc.
I work in that building, and watched from my office window some of what was happening, which included criminal activities, eg pummeling cars trying to enter the area. Apparently a security guard was also attacked. One day I made a quick getaway when they started trying to break the doors to the corridors where offices are. Rather scary!
Needless to say, I’ve been working from home quite a lot lately.
Thanks for the comment. Stay safe.
Rhodes also donated most of the land on which UCT is situatued. And are those students one day going to accept Rhodes scholarships?
Demographics is destiny, and all the 'rainbow conservatives' are missing the point. You might not care about race, but race cares about you.
Rainbow conservatives view issues like this in the same way that Libertarians view immigration. In a perfect world, with no welfare, free transit of individuals might be a good and reasonable step.
But, we don't have that world, certainly not in the USA. So when you argue for 'open borders' and amnesty you are supporting massive wealth transfer and permanant Socialist majority.
The South already faces continual attacks on their heritage, ripping down statues of Confederate heros, renaming parks and public buildings.
There is nothing magic about the USA. What has happened in SA will happen here too. Count on it.
I know people who have traveled there and they say, outside is S Africa, practically every permenant, civilized building that exist is very old and built by the British during the colonial era.
Stupid professors. The red guard will be coming for you before too long. It doesnt stop with statues.
Bite the hand that has fed you...... idiots. South Africa would be another HELLHOLE had Cecil Rhodes not been there.
I was told the same by an American that had visited Kenya; the infrastructure was just falling apart from decades of neglect. Sort of like Detroit and other post-European settlement areas in the US.
leave now
You’re right; it already is happening here in the US as well. Increasing numbers of people aren’t assimilated in any way, having not worked in generations, with no religious faith at all and barely passable English. They will never contribute to a tax base or breed employable offspring that might do so in the future; our home-grown element in now being augmented by an imported class of the same mindset. The marginalization of urban blacks that resulted from the welfare state of the 1960s has spread far & wide in white and Hispanic populations; these populations have no link to the WASP founding of this country, and see no reason to name streets for those founders. It was no accident that there were no US flags at the “Million Man March” or many of those “May Day” demonstrations that briefly flared up before disappearing because they were PR disasters with American voters...
I doubt that those savages have the mental capacity to EARN a Rhodes Scholarship.
Get out of Africa. Now. While you still can.
You are in a similar situation as a Jew in early-1930's Germany. As things turn to shit, white people will be blamed. You will be accused of "sabotage". Pogroms will ensue.
SA residents expunging everything white is like a person sitting on a tree limb one hundred feet in the air sawing off the limb.
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