page_title: Ntokozo Qwabe
section_title: Activism and Rhodes Must Fall
hierarchical_section_title: Ntokozo Qwabe / Activism and Rhodes Must Fall
caption_attribution_description: English: Removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes (sculptor: Marion Walgate) from the campus of the University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015
context_page_description: Ntokozo Sbo Qwabe is a South African lawyer, activist and Rhodes Scholar who was one of the founders of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the University of Oxford. He works with Justices at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, South Africa's apex court, where he has previously worked with Justice Edwin Cameron. Prior to this, Qwabe was an Associate in the Dispute Resolution department at leading South African law firm, Webber Wentzel, specialising in the resolution of disputes in various legal areas, including constitutional, administrative and commercial law. He is regarded as one of South Africa's most promising young jurists.
  Qwabe has previously been criticised for being a Rhodes Scholar and simultaneously founding the Rhodes Must Fall movement. He has pushed back against this criticism, stating that he had earned the Rhodes Scholarship through his scholastic attainments, that the scholarship did not buy his silence on matters of black liberation and social justice, and that in taking the scholarship, he was in any event recovering wealth plundered from Africans by Rhodes and other imperialists during the colonial period.
context_section_description: In March 2015, Qwabe was one of the founders of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign which originated at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and was originally directed at a statue of Cecil Rhodes that was seen by the campaign as a symbol of European colonialism and white supremacy. The campaign subsequently spread to the University of Oxford and internationally. Qwabe has rejected accusations of hypocrisy for receiving money from the Rhodes scholarship scheme, which is funded by a legacy from Cecil Rhodes, claiming that he is merely recovering wealth stolen from Africans by Rhodes during the colonial period.
caption: The statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town being removed in April 2015.
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