Cape Town - The head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town, has called for the energy behind the #RhodesMustFall campaign to be harnessed into self-examination and action to expand the current protests into a society-wide drive for real transformation.
Archbishop Makgoba believes the successful student campaign to have the statue of Cecil John Rhodes removed from UCT’s upper campus reflects growing anger at inequalities in the country.
“The campaign against symbols of the injustice of our past, along with service delivery protests and public outrage over corruption, reflect the anger of South Africans at the inequalities that continue to plague us,” he said this morning.
“The churches, along with government, business and educational institutions, must all join this, the new struggle for equality of opportunity.”
Meanwhile, the campaign has been described as “intolerable hooliganism” by the Institute of Race Relations.
The Institute had given warning earlier that intimidation and racial nationalism shown by the protesters would harm UCT’s standing.
Cape Argus