The legacy of anti-apartheid activists no longer has currency for many of today’s youth.
Remember the Rhodes Must Fall student who unsuccessfully tried to remove a statue of Rhodes from Oxford University and bragged about making a white waitress cry? Well, he’s making waves again.
Following death threats upon returning to Oxford, Ntokozo Qwabe has hit back hard at how the media has reported on his latest escapade involving the waitress and ‘tipgate’.
The Rhodes Must Fall leader’s father was not happy after reading about Qwabe and his friend Wandile Dlamini’s treatment of a waitress in Cape Town a few weeks ago.
Following the failed attempt by some 40 000 petitioners to have the Rhodes Must Fall leader expelled from Oxford University; the controversial activist sets the record straight about what actually happened that fateful day.
Have a look as Rhodes Must Fall leader Ntokozo Qwabe chats about how the crowd-funding campaign for the white waitress proves a point about race and power.
The controversial Rhodes Must Fall leader once again found himself facing the wrath of his critics after bragging about making a white waitress cry; garnering more than 40 000 signatures to have him expelled from Oxford.
Ntokozo Qwabe made headlines after posting on Facebook that he made a white waitress cry and a petition has since garnered tens of thousands of signatures to have him expelled from Oxford University.
A group of Rhodes Must Fall activists apparently reduced a waitress to tears after writing on a bill that they will “tip when you return the land”.
A Professor of European Studies at Oxford University has thanked the Rhodes Must Fall movement for “violating his safe space” and forcing him to confront the realities of the empire’s violent past.
Watch as Liz Wheeler steps on a whole lotta toes as she tackles student protests with one short, loaded phrase.
The flames of #Shackville may well be remembered for uniting South Africa in a sudden, bristling defence of oil paintings. As many artists will tell you, getting us to appreciate them is not easy, especially when there’s sports on, or parliament.
Student protesters at UCT have removed and set alight “offensive art depicting white people at the exclusion of blacks who have built UCT.”
The threat of Oxford alumni pulling funding from the university sealed the matter once and for all, the statue stays and that’s that.
The Brits might be getting a little gatvol of Ntokozo Qwabe’s #RhodesMustFall shenanigans, as a new national poll reveals that only about 11% of them think the statue should be removed.
The Oxford wing of the #RhodesMustFall movement recently won a significant victory when 245 out of 457 students voted for the removal of the statue; and despite many people calling him a hypocrite for using Rhodes funding to get into the UK, the movement’s ringleader is standing firm.
Students studying at Oxford University who can’t bring themselves to embrace Cecil Rhodes’ legacy “should think about being educated elsewhere,” according to the university’s chancellor, Lord Patten.
Ntokozo Qwabe has been in the news quite a bit recently, after some Britons asked him to leave the UK and pay back his scholarship, seeing as he’s so intent on bringing down the Rhodes statue at Oxford University.
The EFF aren’t happy about FW de Klerk writing a letter to The Times in the UK in which he called the student movement against colonialist Cecil John Rhodes “folly”.
Ntokozo Qwabe, currently studying at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, wants the Cecil Rhodes statue at the university removed; which doesn’t exactly sit well with folks there, who’ve branded him a hypocrite for accepting the scholarship.