The statue, which sits on the northern slope of Table Mountain, a popular tourist attraction, was vandalized earlier this week, Rey Thakhuli from SANParks said in a statement.Thakhuli said that a Table Mountain National Park ranger had discovered that the statue's head had been gouged off while patrolling the area."The head of the statue was cut from the bust with what seems to be an angle grinder somewhere between Sunday night or the early hours of Monday morning," he said.Rhodes, a businessman and politician, was a 19th century imperialist who sought more British control over Southern Africa. He ruled as Prime Minister of Cape Colony (now South Africa) in 1890.And as co-founder of diamond-mining company, De Beers, Rhodes also wanted to acquire more territory for mining.SANParks said it could not determine the motive for the vandalism, but it had reported the incident to the police.The beheading of the statue in Cape Town comes on the heels of global Black Lives Matter protests that have seen figures of colonialists toppled around the world. In Uganda and Nigeria, activists have petitioned their governments to remove and rename streetsRead More – Source
The statue, which sits on the northern slope of Table Mountain, a popular tourist attraction, was vandalized earlier this week, Rey Thakhuli from SANParks said in a statement.Thakhuli said that a Table Mountain National Park ranger had discovered that the statue's head had been gouged off while patrolling the area."The head of the statue was cut from the bust with what seems to be an angle grinder somewhere between Sunday night or the early hours of Monday morning," he said.Rhodes, a businessman and politician, was a 19th century imperialist who sought more British control over Southern Africa. He ruled as Prime Minister of Cape Colony (now South Africa) in 1890.And as co-founder of diamond-mining company, De Beers, Rhodes also wanted to acquire more territory for mining.SANParks said it could not determine the motive for the vandalism, but it had reported the incident to the police.The beheading of the statue in Cape Town comes on the heels of global Black Lives Matter protests that have seen figures of colonialists toppled around the world. In Uganda and Nigeria, activists have petitioned their governments to remove and rename streetsRead More – Source
