Removing Rhodes

13 April 2015

After one month of rolling protests about UCT's colonial symbols and heritage, and calls for greater transformation, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was removed from campus on 9 April 2015. We look at the events leading up to its removal through the photographer's lens.

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Monday Monthly

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

Statute of liberty? Transformation on our minds

Preparing for the long walk to transformation

Knowledge worth valorising

The wee matter of Rhodes

Debate is a university's lifeblood

New articulation for the site

The politics of aesthetics

Listen to black voices

The struggle of memory against forgetting

Curriculum must educate racists

Baggage of the past

It's not about Cecil

Remembering a brutal past

Potent symbolism

History can't be unmade

Collective identities, shared spaces

A journey less travelled

Last laugh on Rhodes

Heritage that hurts

Until the lion has its own storyteller

White liberalism shouldn't forget

An inconvenient truth

Heroes are temporary

False mantle of radicalism

Galvanise transformative energy

A sustainable solution

News

Rhodes makes way for transformation

Photo Essay

Removing Rhodes

Front page extra

Rhodes falls

Editorial

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

Previous Editions

Volume 34
Edition 02 25 Mar 2015

Volume 34
Edition 01 25 Feb 2015

Volume 33
Edition 10 01 Dec 2014

Volume 33
Edition 09 20 Oct 2014

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