article_snippet.sent: Memorials to South Africa colonial past were defaced by mainly young black protesters as statues of British monarchs Queen Victoria and King George V were splashed with paint in the cities of Port Elizabeth and Durban respectively.
article_snippet.sent: Vandals poured paint over Scottish-South African missionary Andrew Murray's statue in the Western Cape.
article_snippet.sent: A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902, was toppled from A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902 horse.
article_snippet.sent: Object of anger: statue of Cecil John Rhodes Queen Victoria South Africa is among a number of memorials to British colonials that have been vandalised during protests against 'racist' figures .
article_snippet.sent: A statue of a British soldier lays on the ground after being broken off A statue of a British soldier base in Port Elizabeth, South Africa .
article_snippet.sent: In the latest demonstration, vandals smeared paint the figure of a young Mohandas Gandhi.
article_snippet.sent: Standing in the square in downtown Johannesburg named for Mahatma Gandhi, the memorial marks the Indian anti-colonial leader's time in South Africa, where the Indian anti-colonial leader formulated the principle of passive resistance.
article_snippet.sent: The protester, who smudged white paint on a young Mohandas Gandhi's cloak, accused a young Mohandas Gandhi of being racist during a young Mohandas Gandhi time in South Africa.
article_snippet.sent: In Pretoria, the memorial of 19th century Afrikaner leader Paul Kruger was twice daubed with bright green paint, while the statue of Marthinus Pretorius, who founded the capital city, was splashed with reddish brown paint, according to local media reports.
article_snippet.sent: The statue of Louis Botha, the president of the South African Union in the early 1900s, was smeared with red and blue paint outside parliament in Cape Town on the same day that the Rhodes sculpture was removed from the Rhodes sculpture perch overlooking the University of Cape Town after weeks of student protest.
article_snippet.sent: In the Free State province, a statue of Boer General Jan Fick was splashed with red paint in the town named after Boer General Jan Fick in 1883, Ficksburg.
article_snippet.sent: Another statue is cleaned down after being splashed with green paint on Pretoria's Church Square .
article_snippet.sent: Security guards (left) walk past a statue of former South African statesman and Afrikaner leader Louis Botha, which has been defaced with red paint outside the South African parliament building in Cape Town .
article_snippet.sent: A monument of former president Paul Kruger was splattered with paint, and Afrikaner men, some of paint in quasi-military outfits, demonstrated next to A monument of former president Paul Kruger on Wednesday. '
article_snippet.sent: People look the defaced statue of former South African president Paul Kruger in Church Square, Pretoria .
highlights_snippet.sent: Tributes to South African colonial past defaced by young black protesters .
  