Zanu PF United Kingdom and Europe stand in solidarity with The Rhodes Must Fall Oxford campaign group alongside other thousands of people and student groups who have signed the petition calling for the statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College to be taken down.
Our views are that Cecil Rhodes was a Victorian imperialist one of the main proponents of white colonial domination responsible for all manner of colonial land dispossession, massacring tens of thousands of Black Africans, imposing a regime of unspeakable labour exploitation in the diamond mines and devising proto-apartheid policies. The fact that Rhodes is still memorialised with statues, plaques and buildings demonstrates that British society is yet to confront its own history of empire as well as contend with the pain that period created. For this reason, we are in solidarity with the campaigners in tackling the imperial legacy of racism. We are calling for all iconography that glorifies Cecil Rhodes and other yesteryear imperialists to be peacefully removed forthwith by the authorities here in the UK, in our home country Zimbabwe and anywhere else in the world.
We also take this opportunity to applaud Cape Town University for removing the statue of Cecil Rhodes in 2015 following mass protests. As a revolutionary party that successfully fought and defeated imperialism our views are categorically clear in upholding anti-racist values. We strongly believe that in the 21st century, the statues of white supremacists and slave merchants should not still be standing in our cities. That is why the statue of Cecil Rhodes must come down. #BlackLivesMatter
Issued by Zanu PF UK & EU District
Cde Kuda Zinhu
Secretary for Information and Publicity
Cde Lazarus Nyagumbo -Political Commissar
Cde Marshall Gore – Chairperson
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