Port Elizabeth: Queen Victoria Statue vandalised

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The Queen Victoria statue in front of the Public Library in Port Elizabeth has been vandalised. Incident occurred overnight.


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Queen Victoria statue vandalised in PE

Port Elizabeth - The statue of Queen Victoria in Port Elizabeth was vandalised overnight, HeraldLive reported on Friday.

The statue in front of the public library was covered in green paint on Friday morning.

Queen Victoria was targeted on the same night that the University of Cape Town removed its statue of Cecil John Rhodes after weeks of protests by students.

On Thursday, News24 reported that two members of the Economic Freedom Fighters were arrested for defacing the Louis Botha statue outside Parliament in Cape Town.

The party’s Godrich Gardee said he agreed with what was done to the Botha statue because “you cannot every day be subjected to the mind of the warmonger”.

Other statues vandalised recently include the Paul Kruger statue on Church Plein in Pretoria, the Horse memorial in Port Elizabeth and the Anglo-Boer War memorial in Uitenhage.

News24
Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Queen-Victoria-statue-vandalised-in-PE-20150410
 
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Enough is enough now...

If the EFF are behind this, disband the party and arrest its senior leadership.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Enough is enough now...

If the EFF are behind this, disband the party and arrest its senior leadership.
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The EFF took responsibility for the defacing of the Kruger statue, green paint was used as well so chances are it was them.
 
Seriously, publicly stating you will ignore the law as a political party? Surely that is enough to remove them from any political stuff that they're invovled in?
 
And tomorrow, those winkers will still have no toilets, no jobs, nothing.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Seriously, publicly stating you will ignore the law as a political party? Surely that is enough to remove them from any political stuff that they're invovled in?
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The Constitution means nothing when the ANC themselves are demanding transformation.
 
Hello global news and hello drop in Rand value and hello petrol price increase
 
What the actual ****?

Queen Victoria played an important role in SA history...she has NOTHING to do with Apartheid...this isn't about historical oppression anymore...this is just racism...

It needs to be stopped!
 
Saw this statue mentioned in another thread yesterday, was going to say it will be next

That old Library is absolutely beautiful, suppose they will want that destroyed too. When will they actually build something instead of destroying
 
Method said:
What the actual ****?

Queen Victoria played an important role in SA history...she has NOTHING to do with Apartheid...this isn't about historical oppression anymore...this is just racism...

It needs to be stopped!
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Agreed. This is not about transformation or the pain of apartheid. She was white so she was evil.
 
This is going too far now, really! :mad:

Point was made with the Rhodes statue and they got what they wanted. Move the fsck on!
 
I must say, the DA is rather quiet on this topic. I see that TNA reported that the DA called to have a debate on the statues this morning.

Article by FF+

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politi.../en/page71639?oid=1029572&sn=Detail&pid=71639

Statue vandalism: Where is the DA govt? - FF Plus
Dr. Corné Mulder
09 April 2015

Corné Mulder says damaging of the statue of Gen. Louis Botha in front of Parliament in Cape Town is the continuation of a very dangerous tendency

Vandalising of Gen. Louis Botha's statue is an attack on nation building and social cohesion

The time has come for moderate South Africans from all communities to take hands and stand together against radicals who want to set the country alight again. People who damage and destroy statues and cultural treasures of other communities are not interested in a peaceful future for all in South Africa, Dr. Corné Mulder, the chief whip of the FF Plus says.

He says the damaging of the statue of Gen. Louis Botha in front of Parliament in Cape Town is the continuation of a very dangerous tendency. In 1933 students in Germany at 34 universities destroyed 25 000 books, manuscripts and statues of Jews.

"We all know where that episode ended. At present the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East is doing exactly the same with the destruction of artefacts and statues of minorities in Syria and Iraq.

"It is upsetting that there is no leadership from president Zuma about this issue. The question should be asked where the DA government in Cape Town as well as the DA government in the Western Cape is. Why do they not take the lead in protecting the cultural treasures in the Western Cape which is currently being attacked by cultural terrorists?

"People committing these criminal acts find their protection in the EFF. The EFF gives itself out to be a political party. It is however a party which wants to abuse democracy precisely to destroy democracy.

"The EFF should be viewed as the revolutionary organisation that it is and its leadership should accordingly be held responsible and treated as such," Dr. Mulder says.

Regarding the Louis Botha statue in Cape Town, Dr. Mulder says it is ignorance that makes people want to do away with and damage the statue.

Following the Bambatha uprising in Natal in 1980, the British authorities incarcerated the Zulu king, Dinuzulu ka-Cetshwayo. It was a huge humiliation for the Zulus. Louis Botha was an old friend of the Zulu king and helped him in his struggle against the chief Zibhebhu.

When Louis Botha became the Prime Minister of the Union two years later, one of his first decisions was to issue an order that the Zulu king should be released immediately. He also ensured that the king was given a farm, Uitkyk, to live on. Today, the statues of Louis Botha and Dinuzulu stand next to each other in Durban in recognition of these facts. Should we erase this bit of history by removing both statues or do we learn something about struggle and reconciliation through this?

Statement issued by Dr. Corné Mulder, FF Plus Chief Whip, April 9 2015
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To take note that Democratic Alliance Student Organisation (Daso) didn't agree with the DA to conserve the Rhodes statue.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/ed...at-odds-with-da-over-removal-of-rhodes-statue

HE Democratic Alliance Student Organisation (Daso) has differed with its mother body, the Democratic Alliance (DA), on what should happen to the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

In a statement, Daso at UCT said that it fully supports the removal of the statue "as an essential and long overdue movement towards true transformation and redress".

"The ongoing presence of a controversial British colonialist at the forefront of Upper Campus cannot be tolerated any longer," the student association said.

Last week, the DA said that the statue should not be removed.
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However the DA themselves didn't talk at UCT.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I must say, the DA is rather quiet on this topic. I see that TNA reported that the DA called to have a debate on the statues this morning.

Article by FF+

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politi.../en/page71639?oid=1029572&sn=Detail&pid=71639



To take note that Democratic Alliance Student Organisation (Daso) didn't agree with the DA to conserve the Rhodes statue.

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/ed...at-odds-with-da-over-removal-of-rhodes-statue



However the DA themselves didn't talk at UCT.
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http://www.da.org.za/2015/04/parlia...work-towards-a-reconciled-and-transformed-sa/

No one can take the FF+ serious...
 
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