Vandalisation of Statues South Africa
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 12:19
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Below is a list of statues that have been vandalised since things kicked off with the Rhodes must fall campaign in early 2015. Please report additional cases in the comments section below.
- King George V Statue UKZN campus - 26 March 2015 (painted white)
- Queen Victoria Statue Port Elizabeth
- Anglo-boer War Memorial in Uitenhage was 'necklaced' and set on fire on 2 April 2015
- Horse Memorial Port Elizabeth - the figure of the kneeling soldier was dragged off its pediment on 6 April via Richard Tomlinson
- Paul Kruger Statue Pretoria - multiple hits
- Louis Botha Statue Cape Town - 9 April 2015 (painted red)
- General Jan Fick Ficksburg - 11 April 2015 (painted dark red)
- Martinus Wessel Pretorius Pretoria
- Gandhi Statue Johannesburg -12 April 2015
- Andrew Murray statue Wellington - 12 April 2015 (painted red)
- Paul Kruger and JG Strijdom Statues Krugersdorp - 15 April 2015 (painted red)
- Carl von Brandis Statue Johannesburg - 18/19 April 2015 (painted yellow)
- Anglo Boer War Statue in front of East London City Hall - 19/20 April 2015 (painted white)
- Saartjie Baartman Statue
- The Burger Monument, Burgersdorp
- Centenary Memorial Grahamstown - August 2015 (painted red)
- Two King Williams Town Statues, 5-6 September 2015 (painted red)
- JB Marks Memoiral Broken - 6 or 7 September 2015 (memorial shattered)
- Rhodes Statue Company Gardens Cape Town - 27 January 2016 (attempt to remove the monument using an angle grinder)
- CR Swart Statue at the University of the Free State defaced - 23 February 2016
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