An Oxford student who is leading a campaign to remove Cecil Rhodes statue has been bullied online after revelations that his education has been funded by the scholarship set up by the colonial politician, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Ntokozo Qwabe has been accused of “disgraceful hypocrisy” over the weekend because he has been funded by the scholarship set up by the man whose statue he wants removed.
But Mr Qwabe fought back. He wrote: “Rhodes did not have a scholarship. It was never his money. All that he looted must absolutely be returned immediately.
“I’m no beneficiary of Rhodes. I’m a beneficiary of the resources and labour of my people which Rhodes pillaged and slaved.”
A little more than six years ago you would have spotted Ntokozo Qwabe at a till point in a Durban supermarket. Fast forward to 2015 and you would be more successful looking for him beneath the spires of the world’s most famous university.
Qwabe now holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from Oxford University – and he is not done yet.
The 24-year-old received a two-year scholarship from the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation to study abroad after attaining 17 commendations, 34 distinctions and finishing his University of KwaZulu-Natal law degree summa cum laude.
And there’s something darkly amusing about a Zulu, one of the Bantus, claiming that it was all stolen. The Zulus themselves only moved into the area in the 17 and 18th centuries, displacing the former inhabitants, Khoi San. Even in relatively recent historical timescales Zulus are as much colonialists of the area as anyone else.
I don’t know why you would condemn him. Attention seeking leftist scum and going to attention seek while being leftist scum. The real dirtbags here are the people at Oriel College who caved into this idiot’s demands. They should have known better. They should have defended their benefactors. Or at least returned the money, with interest, to his heirs.
After all, Rhodes made this little sh!t as rich as he is. Which isn’t much. Africans, mostly Khoi-san, lived with those resources for 100,000 years without having the wit to do a damn thing with them. Making some spears to stick into each other aside. Rhodes knew how to make those resources valuable and Black South Africans have been living off it ever since. See OPEC and oil.
Yes, SMFS his the nail on the head here. It’s the craven university staff that should be excoriated.
“Rhodes pillaged and slaved.” There’s much that Rhodes did that was unsavoury; enslaving people was not one of them. To even think that possible you’d have to be woefully ignorant of the history of southern Africa. Or a liar.
Unis must be purged of the leftists running them.
But we must not forget the danger to the future these Red Guard student scum pose.
Once they make their move each of them must be :
*Instantly expelled
*Blackballed from attendance at any UK uni or equivalent ever again
* Barred for life from entering any job or profession where they might have influence–law/politicking/media, etc
* Have their student debt quintupled–if they owe 25 grand it is suddenly surcharged to 125 grand and it will provide a lifelong excuse for harassment and ensuring the scum never get a penny ahead
*If middle-class mummy and daddy try to help junior out–then a ton of shit lands on them as well.
In short–sign up as a Red Guard and your life is fucked for good.
Why such harsh steps ?
Think of the damage done by the long march thro’ our institutions by the previous generation of red shite. How much worse will it be in 30 years if this new crew of well-off leftist pricks do the same.
Smash them now.
As an Oriel man, I am deeply ashamed of my college for removing that plaque commemorating Rhodes. I imagine his statue will remain, given it’s on a listed building.
In part, universities cave into this PC blackmail because students increasingly regard themselves as entitled customers who pay fees for a service.
What relief I felt to find he’d apparently managed to complete his Master’s in Public Law [u]before[/u] his stricken conscience arose to torture this poor young man. Marvellous!
“Colonialists” seems a rather polite way to describe the Mfecane.
@ Mr Ecks – to paraphrase Yes Minister – he’s already blackballed…
I can hardly believe it, but I am completely with SMFS here.
In Rhodesia (yes, I do mean Rhodesia) the Matabele, having been expelled from the Zulu nation because their chief was a bigger nut job than Shaka (or greater man, depending on your take on it) settled North of the Limpopo as a standing army more than a nation. There they effectively enslaved the extant Shona nation. It was as much in revenge for this as his own meglamania that Mugabe ordered those ’80s massacres. When Rhodes took the land he did so with a handful of men, supplanting a king whose throne was a dunghill.
I’m sorry, but the ‘colonialists’ stole absolutely nothing from the Africans.
One of the things that struck me when I was in Nigeria was how prevalent the mindset was whereby nothing is ever enough, and more should always be demanded. And once you’ve got that, demand more. And so on. Gratitude, or the satisfaction of having achieved what previously you could only have dreamed of, was a rare concept. Perhaps this extends further south?
Go back far enough and everybody’s ancestors were shits.
So, sunny Jim Qwabe, somewhere there’s someone who wants to cut your balls off for something your ancestors did.
Be careful what you wish for. Your sort of “justice” is merely revenge.
Actually, the Zulus weren’t colonialists, because they exterminated the bushmen in a planned act of genocide, rather than subjugated them.
Another prime candidate for extraordinary rendition to ISIS held territory. At the very least the swine should be immediately rusticated. In addition the solutions the admirably passionate Mr.Ecks advocates in his post seem germane here. Lest anyone think that too harsh – I can bring 100 million voices to support my argument – well, at least I could have brought 100 million if they hadn’t all been slaughtered on the altar of the Hard Left’s vision….
So this guy tries to bully people into removing a statue, they fight back, and get called bullies for it?
It’s not quite related here, but when it comes to “anti-bullying” campaigns, I like to point out that the State is the biggest bully of them all.
Theophrastus – “As an Oriel man, I am deeply ashamed of my college for removing that plaque commemorating Rhodes.”
Write to them. They need to hear from their Alumni.
“In part, universities cave into this PC blackmail because students increasingly regard themselves as entitled customers who pay fees for a service.”
The larger part is because the academics are in agreement. The student apple does not fall far from the poisonous academic tree.
SMFS
My letter to the spineless libtards is already in the post.
The larger part is because the academics are in agreement.
Yes, that’s part of it; but many academics are wholly opposed to it. My daughter’s father-in-law, an Oxford Professor, has been staying with us, and his blood is boiling with rage at Oriel’s behaviour. Lunch today will be interesting.
“My daughter’s father-in-law…”
There ought to be a word for this. Some sort of cousin, perhaps?
>However, since Mr Qwabe is also a recipient of the scholarship, which last year spent £8 million on 89 scholars, some have called for him to hand the money back.
£100k per scholar?
Only in Oxford.
“My daughter’s father-in-law…”
There ought to be a word for this.
In Arabic it’s ‘my brother’.
White colonialism bad.
Black colonialism good.
Subtract colonialism.
“My daughter’s father-in-law…” There ought to be a word for this.
My son-in-law’s father?
“My daughter’s father-in-law…”
There ought to be a word for this. Some sort of cousin, perhaps?
Russian actually has two pairs of words, one for the daughter’s/wife’s mother- and father-in-law; another for the son’s/husband’s.
Brothers- and sisters-in-law get even more complicated.
Saw the following in yesterday’s ‘Independent’, which just about says it all.
‘In your 24 December report on the Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford you quote Brian Kwoba, one of the organisers: “Cecil Rhodes is responsible for stealing land, massacring tens of thousands of black Africans, imposing a regime of unspeakable labour exploitation in the diamond mines and devising pro-apartheid policies.
“The significance of taking down the statue is simple: Cecil Rhodes is the Hitler of southern Africa. Would anyone countenance a statue to Hitler?”
As a graduate of Rhodes University in South Africa, a political prisoner in Pretoria and Johannesburg (1964-67) and a former journalist banned from being quoted there for over 20 years, I would have thought a doctoral student who can state that Cecil Rhodes is “the Hitler” of southern Africa puts in question the intellectual rigour of his Oxford college.
Rhodes died 113 years ago. Robert Mugabe is still alive. His regime has conclusively been found responsible for “massacring tens of thousands of black Africans” in the 1980s in the genocidal Gukurahundi campaign against the Ndebele people in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). This crime against the African people remains unaddressed.
Would Mr Kwoba not show more integrity if his energies were directed against a living horror, not a historical statue?
Paul Trewhela
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire’