article_snippet: UCT, the oldest university in South Africa and regularly ranked as the best on the continent, was built on land donated by Colonialist Cecil Rhodes, a mining magnate who died in 1902.
article_snippet: Students have dismissed the argument that Cecil Rhodes (pictured) should be honoured for donating land for the campus, saying Cecil Rhodes (pictured) stole land for the campus from black Africans in the first place.
article_snippet: Eusebius McKaiser, an author and commentator who attended the University of KwaZulu Natal and won a prestigious international Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, said in the New York Times: 'South African universities remain a testament to the country's colonial heritage in terms of what South African universities teach, who does the teaching, and the morally odious symbols that haunt our campuses or lurk in our campuses very names. '
article_snippet: McKaiser, who is of mixed race, defended the fact that he accepted a Cecil Rhodes (pictured) scholarship, telling a radio interviewer that in moral terms the colonialist's money belonged to 'the millions of black South Africans whose rights were trampled on'.
article_snippet: he took a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford 'so that I could come back and show the middle finger to he legacy,' McKaiser said.
article_snippet: Another former Cecil Rhodes (pictured) scholar, Shaun Johnson, wrote in South Africa's Times newspaper of his surprise when Mandela agreed in 2002 to have Mandela name coupled with that of Cecil Rhodes (pictured) in a new charitable organisation.
article_snippet: The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, of which Johnson is now executive director, provides post-graduate scholarships to young Africans.
article_snippet: Students have dismissed the argument that Cecil Rhodes (pictured) should be honoured for donating land for the campus, saying Cecil Rhodes (pictured) stole land for the campus from black Africans in the first place . '
highlights_snippet: Colonialist Cecil Rhodes donated the land that University of Cape Town was built on .
  