The campaign was born out of the Rhodes Must Fall \u2013 #RhodesMustFall \u2013 protest movement originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) commemorating Cecil Rhodes that began in March 2015.<\/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
Read: I\u2019m using money stolen from my people: SA Oxford scholar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n He said that Oxford University must address the structures of exclusion. He stressed that the struggle goes beyond a statue. \u201cThe statue is an emblem. We find it deplorable that only 24 black British students were accepted last year into undergraduate body. It\u2019s not just about the statue.\u201d<\/p>\n Last week students at the Oxford Union, world\u2019s most prestigious debating society, voted to remove the statue of Rhodes with 245 voting yes and 212 voting no; however, Oxford University’s chancellor has stated publicly that the statue outside Oriel College should stand.<\/p>\n The respondents were told that Cecil Rhodes was a rich figure largely responsible for Britain’s colonisation of Africa, who funded a trust for overseas students at Oxford but who is considered by some as a symbol of racism.<\/p>\n YouGov previously found that British people tend to say the countries that were colonised by Britain are now better off for it (49%) rather than worse off for it (15%). And 34% even said they would still like Britain to have an Empire, while 45% said they would not.<\/p>\n Anti-Rhodes students should study somewhere else: Oxford chancellor<\/strong><\/a><\/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\")
<\/a>A recent poll conducted by YouGov<\/a>, showed that 59% of Brits say the statue of Rhodes at Oxford should not be taken down. Only 11% say it should be removed and 29% are unsure.<\/p>\nMore on Rhodes<\/h3>\n