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President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled statues of former President Nelson Mandela in the Eastern Cape on 18 July 2023. (GCIS)
ANC

Editorial: Mandela would resent the statues

The government is yet to say how much it cost to commission the statues but no matter how much it spent, this would have made some difference in the lives of the people of Mthatha

  • Editorial
2 min read
The 2015 #FeesMustFall student movement was surely inspired by the gallantry of the 1976 uprisings and the 1980s protests, as they were all about access to equal and quality education irrespective of race.
FEESMUSTFALL

Institutions of higher learning should commemorate their casualties

The bust of Matikweni Nkuna at Tshwane University of Technology is an example of how we should honour those who fought for equal access to education

  • Malesela Maubane
  • Shalate Davhana
5 min read
Protestors hold placards during a demonstration called by the Rhodes Must Fall campaign calling for the removal of the statue of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes outside Oriel College, at the University of Oxford on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP)
CECIL JOHN RHODES

Oxford’s position on Rhodes Must Fall is bad politics — and even worse history

It is misleading to use Nelson Mandela’s name to defend the Cecil John Rhodes statue

  • Nic Cheeseman
7 min read