The publication reported that a leaked document addressed to the College from Oxford alumni had threatened to pull millions more in donations from the university.<\/p>\n
Oriel College confirmed the decision to keep the statue. “Following careful consideration, the College\u2019s governing body has decided that the statue should remain in place,” it told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n
South African student, Ntokozo Qwabe started a campaign at Oxford to have the statue removed.<\/p>\n
Qwabe is 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.<\/p>\n
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
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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
Earlier in January, the Oxford Union, the world\u2019s most prestigious debating society, voted to remove the statue of Rhodes with 245 voting yes and 212 voting no.<\/p>\n
However, Oxford University\u2019s chancellor stated publicly that the statue outside Oriel College should stand, and that students who didn’t like it should go study somewhere else.<\/p>\n
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