ANC Youth League (ANCYL) Western Cape intensifies calls for University of Cape Town (UCT) to remove the statue of Cecil John Rhodes ahead of UCT Council meeting as UCT has the power to do so
7 April 2015
On Monday 6 April 2015 freedom-loving South African youth began celebrating the life and sacrifice of Solomon Mahlangu who laid down his life in the service of freedom from colonial oppression.
Fully cognisant of our responsibility to cherish the ideals that Solomon Mahlangu sacrificed for, ANCYL Western Cape have written a letter to the Chairperson of the UCT Council, correcting some of the perceptions created by the UCT management around the fate of the colonial symbol, i.e. the statue of Cecil John Rhodes.
We are well aware that the UCT Council will meet on Wednesday 8 April 2015 to determine the fate of the colonial symbol.
Accordingly, since the commencement of the campaign, the ANCYL has undertaken to conduct research on the factual underpinnings around the presence of the statue at UCT. Amongst the alarming findings, we have discovered that in fact the Statue is not part of the UCT National Monument declaration.