Twee ‘standbeeld-vandale’ vrygelaat

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Die 21-jarige man wat in hegtenis geneem is vir die skending van Mahatma Ghandi se standbeeld is op borgtog vrygelaat terwyl die EFF-lid wat vir die skending van die Koningin Victoria-standbeeld in hegtenis geneem is, weens ’n gebrek aan bewyse vrygelaat is.

Lt. Kay Makhubela, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê Molefe Maila is Saterdag in hegtenis geneem op aanklag van opsetlike saakbeskadiging nadat hy Ghandi se standbeeld in Johannesburg met wit verf gegooi het. Maila het Maandag in die Johannesburgse landdroshof verskyn en is op borgtog van R500 vrygelaat. Hy moet weer op 8 Mei in die hof verskyn.

Intussen is die 24-jarige EFF-lid wat in hegtenis geneem is vir die skending van die Koningin Victoria-standbeeld in Port Elizabeth vrygelaat.

Paul Walsh, ’n EFF-lid, het hom Maandag aan die polisie oorgegee nadat hulle hom gesoek het in verband met die skending van die Koningin Victoria-standbeeld. Volgens kapt. Sandra Janse van Rensburg het Walsh, EFF-streeksbeampte vir wetenskap, tegnologie en onderwys, later die dag in die hof verskyn en is die aanklagte teen hom laat vaar weens onvoldoende bewyse.

Die Koningin Victoria-standbeeld wat buite die hoofbiblioteek in die stad staan, is Donderdag met groen verf besmeer. Beeldmateriaal van kringtelevisiekameras in die omgewing wys hoe ʼn man net ná 23:00 die aand verf op die standbeeld uitgooi. Die standbeeld is deur die Nelson Mandelabaai-munisipaliteit met ʼn seil bedek totdat dit skoongemaak kan word.

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3 Kommentare

Anton Smit ·

Wat is die doel van kameras as dit nie genoegsame bewyse is nie of is dit omdat hy lid is van dieeef want hulle is mos royal game

Andries ·

Now that the Rhodes statue controversy is almost done and dusted, with Max Price stating that the statue must be moved, the next target by the anti-imperialist students of UCT must surely be the Rhodes Scholarship. This Scholarship allows for 2-3 years study at Oxford University with a stipend of 13,650 pounds per year for postgraduate students. They also stay in a residential college. Students have access to Rhodes House, a 20th century mansion with public rooms, gardens, a library and study areas etc. All this provided by the Rhodes Trust.

I’m sure, however, that the UCT students, in their fanatical endeavours to remove everything connected to Rhodes , will fight tooth and nail to have the Scholarship banned, and that any student selected will vociferously decline in lieu of his conscience and warped ideology.

It is strange though that Nelson Mandela saw fit to merge the Mandela Foundation with the Rhodes Foundation to form the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in 2003, that got a whopping R142 million from the Rhodes Trust. It’s also quite ironical that the mission school Mandela attended received a grant from the Rhodes Trust, as did the University of Fort Hare where he studied. At his treason trial Mandela was defended by a Rhodes Scholar, Bram Fischer. There is no doubt that these bigoted students will fight vociferously to have the Rhodes Trust removed from the Mandela Rhodes Foundation as the Mandela name cannot be tarnished by linking it to the imperialist racist, Cecil Rhodes.

A colonial racist who has done nothing for the black people of South Africa except donate millions of Rands to worthy causes, and fund and build schools and universities that they are attending quite sanctimoniously. Statues and trusts can be removed, but never history. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.

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