on Heritage Day later that year. Controversy of the memorial The Rhodes Memorial is in post-Apartheid South Africa a controversial site due to the political impact Cecil Rhodes historically had in the formation of an inequal system. Some are of the opinion that colonialism and apartheid are part of the history of South Africa and that the Rhodes Memorial therefore is appropriate. Another view on the matter is that, due to the impact the colonialism has had on forming the inequal society that is South Africa today, these kinds of memorials are inappropriate. There are also several other movements ongoing that are addressing issues on this topic, like discussions about monuments and statues in the UK and Europe that promoted colonialism and imperialism, and the Black Life Matters movement. Another point of view in this debate accepts the problematic signal that these kinds of monuments hold but argues that keeping them in the public light is preferable so that they can be critically interrogated on a regular basis. The controversy around Cecil Rhodes monuments was addressed by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, a series of student protests, that eventually lead to the removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town campus. Many of the same arguments are brought up in the discussion of the memorial, as well as for other monuments and statues of Rhodes in Southern Africa. These point at how the letting such memorials stay in the public space gives significance to, and continues the promotions of, the ideas that Rhodes him selves promoted, like the elitism of the white population and the economical and geographical distribution and ownership .The students of South Africa, through the Rhodes Must Fall movement, expressed how they did not accept the insensitivities that these kind of monuments gives presence to. The issue of symbolic representation in the South African context is an important topic in the decolonial and post-apartheid society. With Rhodes using his political power to re-distribute land from black Africans through the Glen Grey Act and at the same time increasing the limit of economic wealth needed for having the right to vote though the Franchise and Ballot Act, he was a large contributor to the inequality that sill perpetuates the South African country today. These political decisions were made in the Parliament of Cape, and therefore the Rhodes Memorial, and other monuments in the