Opinion: Cecil John Rhodes

Posted on April 01, 2015

There are conflicting views on how Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy should be evaluated. The proximate issue in the debate raging at the University of Cape Town is whether the statue of a figure as divisive as Rhodes should continue to form the centrepiece of that university 20 years after democracy. The deeper issue concerns the nature of the university’s institutional culture, writes UP Political Sciences Research Associate Dr Mzukisi Qobo in Business Day.

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- Author Department of Political Sciences

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