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Apartheid Monuments - Oom Paul Kruger

How South Africa confronts symbols of its difficult past is now being discussed in newspaper columns, television talkshows and mainstream politics. The Guardian reports attacks began a month ago when a student at the University of Cape Town flung a bucket of excrement over a statue of the British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes, which had enjoyed pride of place on campus since 1934. This sparked a vocal “Rhodes must fall” campaign, involving marches and sit-ins, that led to the huge bronze being removed from its plinth before ululating crowds, some of whom splashed it with red paint or held placards saying “more than a statue”.The radical Economic Freedom Fighters party, led by the firebrand Julius Malema, vigorously joined the movement. Its followers daubed paint over statues of the former South African leaders Paul Kruger and Louis Botha in Pretoria and Cape Town respectively

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