Bongani Nkosi
MAIL&GUARDIAN - 30 Mar 2015
The fall of late imperialist Cecil Rhodes’s statue at the University of
Cape Town (UCT) won’t be a meaningless token action, but a major step
towards defeating white supremacy in South Africa.
This is what Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom
Fighters (EFF), told delegates at the summit of the party’s student wing
at the University of the Witwatersrand on Sunday. Members of the EFF
Student Command from 103 university and college campuses across the nine
provinces attended the summit.
Delivering a keynote address, Malema urged the students to
reject attempts by some influential people to trivialise the “Rhodes
Must Fall” campaign by students at UCT.
Those people ask “when Rhodes falls, then what?” as if the campaign is
“just a small thing”.
“It is not a small thing. [The campaign] is an onslaught against white supremacy,” said Malema.
“It is that statue that continues to inspire [whites] to
think that they are a superior race, and it is through collapsing of
these types of symbols that the white minority will begin to appreciate
that there’s nothing superior about them.”
Downfall of race supremacy
The UCT
students’ protest campaign to have Rhodes’s statue on campus removed
enters its third week on Monday. Malema described it as just “one very
important step in the correct direction”.
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