Mandla anti-Rhodes

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Madiba grandson joins call to eliminate imperialist’s name

NELSON Mandela’s eldest grandson, Mandla Mandela, has joined the call to remove symbols honouring Cecil John Rhodes from public spaces.

Mandla Mandela, who styles himself as the custodian of Madiba’s legacy, even stepped up the campaign by suggesting that Rhodes’s name should be removed from The Mandela Rhodes Place in Cape Town and from The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.

“The revolution must intensify,” he said on Sunday in an Instagram post under a picture of students carrying a banner with the words “Rhodes Must Fall”.

Mandela lent his name to the foundation in 2003, telling a gathering at Westminster Hall, London, that “bringing together these two names represents a symbolic moment in the closing of the historic circle”.

He went on: “We know with confidence that the work of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation will substantively contribute to a better life for the people of South Africa and further abroad on the African continent.”

Mandla obtained a degree in politics from Rhodes University.