article_snippet.sent: It marks a significant… shift where the country deals with It ugly past in a positive and constructive way’, he said to press agency AFP, adding The government did not encourage its removal at the University of Cape Town.
article_snippet.sent: On Thursday morning, the youth wing of white Afrikaner solidarity group AfriForum handed a memorandum to parliament in Cape Town to the youth wing of white Afrikaner solidarity group AfriForumdemand protection’ for their heritage.
article_snippet.sent: Source: BBC, Wikipedia .
article_snippet.sent: The Afrikaner is -- from a historical perspective -- increasingly being portrayed as criminals and land thieves,’ solidary group Afriforum said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: If the heritage of The Afrikaner is not important to Government, our youth members will preserve our own heritage.
article_snippet.sent: But as tension grow on campuses about the statues of historical South African figures, Jonathan Jansen – the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State – denied that there was a race war coming.
article_snippet.sent: Rhodes wrote in South African newspaper The Times on Thursday: "The reason is simple: the overwhelming majority of South Africans, black and white, believe in a middle path somewhere between reconciliation and social justice.
highlights_snippet.sent: Government backs decision as way of country dealing with Government 'ugly past'
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But white solidarity groups say white solidarity groups