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Rhodes falls

13 April 2015

One month to the day after students publicly demonstrated their disgust at the legacy of Cecil John Rhodes – and the words "poo protest" hit the headlines – the statue of Rhodes on upper campus came down. We track the path to his unseating.

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Volume 34 Edition 03

13 Apr 2015


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Front page

A people's history of struggle

Special Focus

You said it: Voices from the University Assembly
What matrix made Rhodes?

Opinions

Knowledge worth valorising
Debate is a university's lifeblood
The wee matter of Rhodes
Preparing for the long walk to transformation
Statute of liberty? Transformation on our minds
Collective identities, shared spaces
History can't be unmade
Potent symbolism
A journey less travelled
Remembering a brutal past
New articulation for the site
It's not about Cecil
Baggage of the past
Curriculum must educate racists
The struggle of memory against forgetting
Listen to black voices
The politics of aesthetics
Heritage that hurts
Until the lion has its own storyteller
White liberalism shouldn't forget
An inconvenient truth
Last laugh on Rhodes
Heroes are temporary
False mantle of radicalism
Galvanise transformative energy
A sustainable solution

Editorial

Past tense, present imperfect: now what of the future?

Front page extra

Rhodes falls

Photo Essay

Removing Rhodes

News

Rhodes makes way for transformation

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