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 Attending the debate, he rejected criticism branding him a hypocrite for taking money from the Rhodes Trust. “We are here to take back the money. We are here to at last have some dignity.”<\/p>\n “I will not be told that I’m a hypocrite for taking money that was stolen from my people.”<\/p>\n Qwabe stressed that the struggle goes beyond a statue. “The statue is an emblem. We find it deplorable that only 24 black British students were accepted last year into undergraduate body. It’s not just about the statue.”<\/p>\n Oxford University\u2019s chancellor, Lord Patten said that students who cannot embrace Cecil Rhode\u2019s legacy as part of history \u201cshould think about being educated elsewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n He said that, at the end of his life, Rhodes left his whole fortune to a scholarship programme which has helped to ensure that Oxford University manages to be a university for the whole world.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if people at our university aren\u2019t prepared to show the generosity of spirit which Nelson Mandela showed towards Rhodes and towards history\u2026 then maybe they should think about being educated elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n Patten suggested anti-Rhodes students go study at a Chinese university, \u201cwhere they are not allowed to talk about \u2018western values\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Anti-Rhodes students should study somewhere else: Oxford chancellor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Rhodes scholarship does not buy our silence\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n South African student takes #RhodesMustFall campaign to Oxford<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Decolonise](\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Decolonise-Oxford.jpg\")
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