Qwabe\u00a0is the co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall In Oxford \u2013 \u201can organisation determined to decolonise the space, the curriculum, and the institutional memory at, and to fight inter-sectional oppression within, Oxford\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n Qwabe, a former law student at KwaZulu-Natal, received the Rhodes Scholarship to further his studies at England\u2019s Oxford University, in 2013.<\/p>\n A statement, signed by 198 Rhodes scholars said:<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past few weeks, we have seen an onslaught of attacks in the British media against our fellow Rhodes scholar Ntokozo Qwabe in response to his involvement in Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford. Since then, a wave of ad hominem and unfounded accusations, hate speech and racism have flooded social media, the press and indeed Ntokozo\u2019s personal inbox.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The students added: \u201cThis scholarship does not buy our silence…It is not an instrument of censorship”.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no hypocrisy in being a recipient of a Rhodes scholarship and being publicly critical of Cecil Rhodes and his legacy \u2013 a legacy that continues to alienate, silence, exclude and dehumanise in unacceptable ways. There is no clause that binds us to find \u2018the good\u2019 in Rhodes\u2019 character, nor to sanitise the imperialist, colonial agenda he propagated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThose things are not just exceptions, they go to the very heart of how Oxford is configured, and how Oxford, as a space is, to be quite frank, racist. That blatant, violent, assault and racism is unacceptable at a university that purports to be inclusive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The college has agreed to review the Rhodes statue in due course.<\/p>\n![\"Decolonise](\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Decolonise-Oxford.jpg\")
<\/a>In an interview with SABC, Qwabe said that the struggle goes beyond a statue, pointing to a \u2018structural violence\u2019 within the world\u2019s most recognised tertiary institution through its curriculum, and the lack of black professors.<\/p>\nMore on Rhodes<\/h3>\n