Afrikaner students wanted the statue removed because Rhodes was a British imperialist who wanted to continue British rule in South Africa, and considered the Afrikaner population to be less-than the British. Calls for the statue's removal had been slowly increasing for several decades, with Afrikaner students first demanding the removal of the statue in the 1950s. Solomon in designing and constructing the new buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The bronze statue of a seated Cecil Rhodes was sculpted by Marion Walgate (née Mason), wife of architect Charles Walgate, who worked with J.
It also inspired the emergence of allied student movements at other universities, both within South Africa and elsewhere in the world. Rhodes Must Fall captured national headlines throughout 2015 and sharply divided public opinion in South Africa. On 9 April 2015, following a UCT Council vote the previous night, the statue was removed. The campaign for the statue's removal received global attention and led to a wider movement to " decolonise" education across South Africa.
Rhodes Must Fall was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes.
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