The recent protests about the statue of Rhodes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have resulted in much debate and media coverage. They also present an opportunity to analyse elements of public history and its role.

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The recent protests about the statue of Rhodes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have resulted in much debate and media coverage. They also present an opportunity to analyse elements of public history and its role.

The rise and fall of Rhodes memoralization

Since 1934, students making their way up the many granite stairs that lead to the main campus of the University of Cape Town, where I work, have passed by the imposing statue of Cecil John Rhodes (modelled on Rodin’s The Thinker), which looks out over a wide vista of the eastern side of Cape Town and False Bay.

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