UCT votes to remove Rhodes statue
Thursday, April 09, 2015
The monument will be taken down from the campus on Thursday and 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. It was smeared with excrement last month.
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